Gathered in a plenary session in the departmental chamber, the CDJ set the future orientations for the upcoming two-year term (2018-2020) yesterday.
Faithful to its civic and educational mission, the Departmental Youth Council (CDJ) gives elected middle school students, organized into two working commissions, the opportunity to engage in active democracy, reflect on societal themes that directly concern them, and carry out projects and awareness campaigns aimed at teenagers in the Alpes-Maritimes.
The CDJ is composed of 27 girl/boy pairs (54 students) elected from the 5th-grade classes of 30 organizing middle schools in the Alpes-Maritimes. Elected for two school years through a two-round binomial vote, the pairs of young departmental councilors each represent a canton of the department.
During the inaugural plenary assembly, the new councilors chose one of the two commissions, each dealing with a specific area of expertise, based on their interests:
- Commission 1 “health, solidarity, and equality”;
- Commission 2 “environment, heritage, and security”.
A place for exchanges and debates, each commission allowed the young elected members to work on carrying out one or more projects, supervised by the departmental services and its partners.
Charles-Ange Ginésy declared, alongside Éric Ciotti and Jean Michel Flo’ch, Academic Inspector: “In a world where young people are very early exposed to the realities of society, I give you an example, that of Greta Thunberg, who at just 15 years old, delivered an exemplary speech at the UN and during COP24 to shake leaders on climate change (…) By becoming CDJ, you thus become in turn one of the links in this beautiful and large chain in the service of the Alpes-Maritimes. And I know that you will be keen to play a decisive role in it.”
