In whatever way democracy might be developed in the future, representation will stay a key element of any democracy. As a political principle, representation is a relationship through which an individual or group stands for, or acts on behalf of a larger body of people. Representation differs from democracy: it acknowledges a distinction between government and the governed. Representative democracy, as an indirect form of democratic rule links the representatives and the represented in such a way that the people’s interests are secured and the people’s views are articulated. The 2010 Assembly report5 concluded that the “crisis in representation required a different approach to the political relationship between people and authorities, in addition to the traditional forms of mandate and delegation. Without questioning representative democracy, it argued that representation could no longer be the only expression of democracy. Democracy needed to be developed beyond representation, through the introduction of more sustained forms of interaction between people and authorities in order to include direct democratic elements in the decision–making process. Participatory democracy should be enhanced as a process in which all persons are involved in the conduct of public affairs at local, regional and national level.