[…] More that 1M people signed it (twice as many as was needed to have the petition be acknowledged by the government). And what does all of this mobilisation get them? A discussion about the law in the parliament and nothing else.
It’s the same process across Continental Europe. The worst part about this is that it is considered the direct democratic aspect of liberal democracy. How is it direct-democratic if it’s still someone else making the decisions about whether or not to follow suit with the petition’s content?
Meanwhile, industrialists don’t have to do half of the work required to get hundreds of thousands of people to agree with them to get the laws they desire.