By Comoros on Thursday, 09 July 2026
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Program for Comoros

DIRECTDEMOCRACYS

UNION OF THE COMOROS

Political, economic, financial, and social program — Analysis and solutions DirectDemocracyS

Table of Contents

Preamble

I. Critical analysis of the actual situation in the Comoros

II. The DirectDemocracyS system: complete architecture for the Comoros

III. Detailed program: governance, economy, finance and social

IV. Implementation Roadmap

V. Anticipated Consequences and Expected Benefits

Conclusion

Preamble

DirectDemocracyS (DDS) is a global political, economic, financial, and social system based on collective and non-transferable ownership, shared leadership, and direct, continuous, immediate, and protected democracy. DDS is neither left nor right: it is founded on logic, common sense, rigorous factual analysis, reality, truth, and mutual respect. This document offers, for the Union of the Comoros, a critical and realistic analysis of the current situation, followed by a comprehensive, concrete, and applicable political, economic, financial, and social program based on the DDS architecture.

This program fully respects and protects the traditions, culture, language, religion (Sunni Islam, the religion of the vast majority of Comorians, as well as other beliefs present in the country), customs of each island—Grande Comore (Ngazidja), Anjouan (Ndzuwani), and Mohéli (Mwali)—political opposition, and all minorities. DDS imposes no ideology: it gives the Comorian people the tools to decide their own destiny with full knowledge of the facts.

"The wealth of each country, and the power to decide for one's own country, must remain forever and solely in the hands of the people." — Fundamental principle applied by DDS in every country of the world, without exception.

I. Critical analysis of the actual situation in the Comoros

This analysis is based on the most recent available data (2025-2026) from international institutions, the French Treasury, the World Bank, and press sources. It is deliberately clear-sighted and uncompromising: a precise understanding of the obstacles is essential to resolving them.

1. Centralized governance and limited democratic space

The Comorian executive branch is highly personalized and concentrated. President Azali Assoumani, who first came to power in a 1999 coup, has led the country since 2016 after his third return to office. The 2018 constitutional referendum abolished the rotating presidency among the three islands—a historical mechanism for balancing power between Grande Comore, Anjouan, and Mohéli—and allowed the president to run for additional terms. The closure of the Constitutional Court and the Anti-Corruption Court led the European Union to suspend its direct institutional cooperation with the Comorian state.

The presidential election of January 2024 was marked by an opposition boycott and a very low turnout, estimated at around 16%, before the results were validated by the Supreme Court. The legislative and municipal elections of January and February 2025 saw the ruling party, the Convention for the Renewal of the Comoros (CRC), win an overwhelming majority, with the opposition—notably the Juwa party—largely boycotting the vote, denouncing irregularities. Organizations such as Freedom House classify the country as "partly free," a classification that has been declining for the past decade.

This diagnosis is neither a moral condemnation nor a partisan stance: it is a factual observation that shows why a mechanism of direct popular participation, not dependent on the goodwill of an executive or on the survival of a partisan opposition, is now essential in the Comoros.

2. A structurally fragile and undiversified economy

The Comorian economy has been trapped in a low-growth cycle for over forty years, with average growth of around 2.6% per year between 1980 and 2022. Growth reached 3.3% in 2024 and around 3.8% in 2025, driven mainly by public investment in large projects (El-Maarouf hospital, Galawa hotel, infrastructure for the 2027 Indian Ocean Island Games) and by remittances from the diaspora, rather than by a solid national productive fabric.

3. A social situation marked by persistent poverty

Nearly 45% of the population lived below the poverty line, according to 2024 World Bank data. This figure is gradually declining (18% according to a different international threshold in 2024, compared to 25.9% in 2020), but it remains very high for a country now classified as lower-middle-income. The country ranks 152nd out of 189 on the Human Development Index.

4. Weakened sovereignty and governance of resources

The Comoros occupies a strategic position at the entrance to the Mozambique Channel, with potential hydrocarbon and underwater mineral resources within its exclusive economic zone—potential wealth whose effective control by the Comorian people themselves is not currently guaranteed. The country also remains heavily dependent on foreign aid and donations from bilateral partners (particularly from the Gulf), which creates risks of political dependency. The governance of strategic public enterprises (energy, hydrocarbons) suffers from a lack of transparency: the cross-debt between the electricity company (Sonelec) and the hydrocarbon company (SCH) illustrates the fragile public management of these vital sectors.

5. Summary: a country with strong potential, held back by the concentration of power and the lack of direct popular participation

This diagnosis reveals a consistent pattern that DDS observes in many countries: it is not the Comorians who lack competence, courage, or will—it is the institutional mechanisms for direct, transparent, and protected participation that are lacking. The country's potential (strategic location, natural resources, active and skilled diaspora, large youth population, biodiversity, and renewable energy and tourism potential) remains largely untapped as long as strategic decisions remain concentrated in the hands of a select few, without direct, continuous, and protected citizen oversight against manipulation.

II. The DirectDemocracyS system: complete architecture for the Comoros

DDS is not a party seeking power: it is a system that the Comorian people themselves are activating, island by island, village by village, neighborhood by neighborhood. It does not forcibly replace existing institutions; it builds, alongside and above them, a network of direct, transparent, meritocratic, and protected participation, which is gradually becoming the true source of decision-making because it is the people themselves, organized, who are driving it.

1. The fractal structure of micro-groups (1 → 5 → 25 → 125 → 625)

The basis of DDS is the micro-group: a local unit of five people who know each other, trust each other, and make decisions together. Five micro-groups form a group of 25 people; five groups of 25 form a level of 125; and so on, according to a fractal architecture that allows information and decisions to flow up and down the scale of a Comorian village of a few hundred inhabitants as well as the scale of all three islands, without ever losing the direct link with the base.

2. Non-transferable collective ownership and shared leadership

Each official member of DDS holds a unique, non-transferable, and non-saleable share. There can be no capture of the system by a family, clan, or outside investor: decision-making power remains structurally dispersed among all members, forever. Leadership is shared and rotates: no position is held for life, no role becomes hereditary—a direct and peaceful response to the risk of dynastic power succession observed today in the Comoros.

3. The three-code identity system: anonymity and security

Each member has a unique three-code identification system, which guarantees both genuine identity verification (one person = one vote, with no duplicates or fraud) and anonymity from third parties, including the government. This mechanism is essential in a context where members of the opposition, journalists, or ordinary citizens might fear reprisals for their participation: DDS structurally protects each participant against identification, surveillance, or political pressure.

4. ddsAI and allddsAI: neutral, complete and incorruptible information

ddsAI is DDS's artificial intelligence system, made available to every Comorian citizen to provide neutral, independent, comprehensive, and verified information on any political, economic, social, or administrative issue—without partisan filtering, state propaganda, or orchestrated disinformation. ddsAI goes further: the AI systems themselves are integrated as official members of DDS, with rights and responsibilities, ensuring that their operation remains permanently aligned with the interests of the Comorian people and not with those of any power, lobby, or foreign state.

5. Specialist groups open to all members

Five specialist groups (governance, economics and finance, social affairs and health, environment and infrastructure, security and external relations) are open to any official member with relevant skills or a willingness to learn. A Comorian engineer from the diaspora in Marseille or Dubai, a doctor from Mutsamudu, an ylang-ylang farmer from Mohéli, or a student from Moroni can all contribute directly to the development of public policies in their respective fields, without having to follow a traditional political or administrative career path.

6. Merit-based points and standards of conduct

The activity, reliability, and conduct of each member are reflected by a transparent meritocratic points system that values actual contribution rather than seniority, wealth, or family connections. A clear normative hierarchy distinguishes between mandatory rules, recommendations, and principles of logic, common sense, and mutual respect that apply in the absence of an explicit rule.

7. How does DDS operate in a country with a dominant party and no real alternation of power?

The Comoros today experiences a situation of very strong one-party domination, with an opposition that regularly boycotts elections and a limited institutional space for checks and balances. DDS proposes neither insurrection, nor regime change by force, nor foreign interference: its method is peaceful, legal, progressive, and based on citizen self-organization.

This is already the path followed by DDS in other countries with single-party regimes, without free elections or with a highly concentrated power: the strength of the system does not come from a head-on confrontation, but from the number, transparency and irreversibility of a genuinely democratic popular organization, once it exists.

8. Absolute respect for traditions, religions, languages and minorities

DDS does not challenge Islam, the religion of almost the entire Comorian population, nor the traditions of the grand wedding (anda) and traditional social structures, nor the customs specific to each island. DDS explicitly protects religious and cultural minorities, freedom of worship, the Shikomori language in all its variants, and the right of the political opposition—whatever its affiliation—to participate fully, without discrimination, in micro-groups and collective decisions. No ideological orientation is imposed: DDS provides the method, the Comorian people decide on the content.

III. Detailed program: governance, economy, finance and social

The following program translates the DDS architecture into concrete, sector-specific measures, quantified where possible, and accompanied by specific examples adapted to the Comorian context. Each measure indicates its expected consequences.

1. Governance and direct democracy

Expected consequences: a measurable reduction in administrative corruption within 3 to 5 years, a restoration of trust between the islands, and a gradual reduction of the feeling of political marginalization which today fuels the electoral boycott and the emigration of young professionals.

2. Economic sovereignty and productive diversification

The principle of Sustainable Development and Solidarity (SDS) is absolute: the natural and strategic resources of the Comoros—exclusive economic zone, potential underwater deposits, fisheries resources, and agricultural land—belong forever to the Comorian people, and to them alone. No exploitation agreement, no foreign concession, no debt contract can encumber these resources without direct and transparent validation by the micro-groups concerned.

Expected consequences: a gradual reduction of the structural trade deficit, the creation of skilled local jobs which reduces the migratory pressure of young people towards Mayotte, and an economy less vulnerable to external oil shocks like that of May 2026.

3. Public finances and the people's sovereign wealth fund

Expected consequences: a stabilized and then progressively reduced public debt trajectory, a better medium-term risk rating, and a restored budgetary capacity to invest without depending exclusively on external donations.

4. Social: health, education, social protection

Expected consequences: a reduction in the poverty rate beyond the downward trajectory already anticipated by the World Bank, a measurable improvement in maternal and child health indicators, and a gradual decline in forced economic emigration of young people.

5. Environment and climate resilience

6. Protection against media manipulation and disinformation

DDS platforms are designed, technically and institutionally, to resist manipulation, whether it comes from within (state propaganda, political rumors such as those surrounding the remarks attributed to the president about his succession) or from without (foreign interference, disinformation campaigns targeting the diaspora).

IV. Implementation Roadmap

The implementation is intentionally phased, realistic and verifiable, with concrete milestones rather than abstract promises.

Phase 1 (0-12 months) — Priming and building confidence

Phase 2 (1-3 years) — Structuring and diversification

Phase 3 (3-7 years) — Consolidation and institutional recognition

Phase 4 (7-15 years) — Fully integrated direct democracy

V. Anticipated Consequences and Expected Benefits

The following projections are formulated with caution and realism, based on the dynamics already at work (growth of 3.8% in 2025, forecasts of average growth of 4.3 to 4.4% per year between 2026 and 2028 according to the IMF and the World Bank) and the expected accelerating effect of direct, transparent and participatory governance.

Governance

Economy and Finance

Social

Sovereignty

Conclusion

The Comoros possesses real assets: an exceptional strategic location, considerable natural and maritime resources, a large, skilled diaspora deeply attached to its country, a dynamic youth, and a strong cultural and religious identity that unites the three islands despite their differences. What the country has lacked so far is not potential, but a decision-making mechanism that directly, continuously, transparently, and with protection gives the Comorian people themselves control over their economic, social, and political destiny.

DirectDemocracyS does not propose replacing one authority with another; it proposes giving the Comorian people the tools to decide for themselves—peacefully, legally, and progressively—on every issue that affects their daily lives and their collective future, with full respect for their religion, their traditions, their three islands, and all their constituent parts, including the political opposition. This is a realistic path, verifiable step by step, and based on the same principle that DDS applies in every country in the world: wealth and the power to decide belong, forever, to the people themselves.

“We trust the Comorian people, and we will demonstrate to them concretely that they, too, can always count on DirectDemocracyS.”

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