Calls for MSPs to open up Scottish decisions to local communities
The Citizens Assembly Report, which recommends the creation of new local assemblies, and a House of Citizens scrutinising parliamentary legislation, is due to be debated at Holyrood today.
Led by the Electoral Reform Society Scotland, a group of other campaigners including the Scottish Community Alliance and What Works Scotland, have written an open letter to MSPs urging them to follow the recommendations in the report.
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Hide AdThe report issues 60 recommendations backed backed by the assembly – an organisation set up in 2019 of a group of people selected at random from a cross section of the population.