French President Emmanuel Macron looks on during a meeting as part of the "great national debate" in Evry-Courcouronnes, on February 4, 2019 | Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images France set for grand debate on Twitch French government reaching out to young people with debate on gaming livestream platform.

The French establishment is down with the kids, or at least it hopes to be.

On Tuesday, the government will hold one of its "grand debates" on Twitch, a popular livestreaming platform that allows you to watch other people playing video games.

Youth participation has been virtually nonexistent since President Emmanuel Macron started holding grand debates around the country in January in response to the Yellow Jackets protests. By holding one of the debates on Twitch, which has a huge following among 15-35 year olds, the government is taking its message to the youth.

"We realized too many users in our community had no idea what the 'grand debates' were," said Jean Massiet, the founder of Accropolis, a Twitch channel that focuses on politics and whose weekly shows attract thousands of viewers.

On sera sept animatrices et animateurs à se relayer pour faire échanger des jeunes avec des ministres. Soyez avec nous, dans le chat d’@Accropolis pour poser toutes vos questions, on veut vraiment VOTRE avis, que VOUS ayez la parole ! https://t.co/iGvyldB95z — Marine Périn (@MarinePerin) February 18, 2019

Massiet was one of those who approached the office of the prime minister about holding a debate. He said the government loved the idea and it only took eight days to organize. Ten members of the government — including the prime minister, the minister of culture and the minister of education — will take part in an 11-hour meeting split into two five-hour sessions on Tuesday, taking questions submitted by viewers.

The debate, to be broadcast on Accropolis' Twitch channel, will discuss youth involvement in politics in addition to the grand debates' traditional four main topics — democracy and citizenship, fiscal policy and public spending, the organization of the state and public services, and environmental transition — according to Massiet.

11h de live avec des jeunes, des vidéastes et 10 ministres, c’est inédit et c’est le Grand #Debathon ! A suivre demain sur https://t.co/JUKUr57pHT dès 9h. pic.twitter.com/fuJLB8Is6k — Sébastien Lecornu (@SebLecornu) February 18, 2019

Viewership for the weekly debates featuring the president has been declining steadily, and an official in Macron's entourage said his team is "keen to diversify the formats as much as possible in order to include as wide a cross-section of the population as possible and allow the president to gather the maximum amount of feedback."

Sebastien Lecornu, the minister for ecological transition, who is taking part in the marathon debate, said on Twitter that the format is "unprecedented."