Robustness means having tools to understand what is going on. Not depending on an intermediary to access critical information: that is what I have built with MonParlement.fr.
The collective shock that followed Trump’s election is the best example of what happens when you are not prepared. You watch it happen, without having put a plan B in place.
I do not want to live through that shock again, and I do not want to contribute to it.
That is where MonParlement.fr, a personal project, came from.
A lot happens at the Assemblée nationale (the lower house of the French Parliament), but understanding who votes for what, who allies with whom, on which issues, is more complex than it seems.
MonParlement.fr analyses more than 300,000 parliamentary data points collected since 2017, with the aim of being a tool that is broad but also deep: acting as a “seismograph of dissent” and understanding which group votes with which, measuring how laws are applied where we decode them, providing the reasons why a given group voted the way it did.
And all of it made accessible to everyone, as open data, with zero tracking.
The idea is not to replace journalists or political analysts, but rather to no longer depend on an intermediary to understand what is going on in the chamber.
While working on this personal project, I realised that the logic was the same as the one that guides my work at France-IX.
Robustness goes beyond reliable technical infrastructure: it means having a plan B. For example, by building peering platforms that are independent of each other so there is no single point of failure.
The same logic applies to democratic information: having your own tools and access to the raw data before it is filtered, so you can analyse with full knowledge of the facts.
Preparing for the worst is not pessimism. It is resilience.
This site aims to be useful to those who want to understand the legislative kitchen, follow the action of those in power closely and not find themselves stunned the day something changes fast.
2027 is not that far away, and the right tools are best mastered before you urgently need them.
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