Back التجمع الشعبي Arabic Volksversammlung German Λαϊκή συνέλευση Greek Asamblea popular Spanish Kansankokous Finnish Népgyűlés Hungarian Majelis rakyat ID 대중 집회 Korean Volksvergadering Dutch Assembleia popular Portuguese
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A popular assembly (or people's assembly) is a gathering called to address issues of importance to participants. Popular assemblies tend to be freely open to participation, in contrast to elected assemblies and randomly-selected citizens' assemblies, and are a form of direct democracy. Some popular assemblies consist of people invited from a location, while others invite them from a workplace, industry, educational establishment or protest movement. Some are called to address a specific issue, while others have more open remit.
The term is often used to describe gatherings that address, what participants feel are, the effects of a democratic deficit in representative democratic systems.[1] Sometimes assemblies are created to form an alternative power structure, other times they work with other forms of government.