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Bill: RP: Protests against conscription erupt in Luthori
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Submitted by[?]: Labour Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This bill is a resolution. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: January 5353
Description[?]:
| Republican Times - 29 May 5352 In 23 May, 5352, protests against conscription erupted all over Luthori and the protesters called for its end and defiance to conscription reached an historically high level. The protests initially started in Fort William, and gradually spread to all cities. While the political parties and the politicians initially remained neutral, politicians from different parties started to take sides. The first politician who spoke about the protests was Robert Landon, who is a Member of Imperial Diet from the Socialist Liberal Party: "I stand here for a critical topic. A few days ago, people started to protest against the conscription and some of them even occupied recruitment offices and refused to perform millitary service. What is going on now? It is clear: the right-wing and far-right parties joined forces to pass a bill which would abolish civilian national service and criminalize conscientious objection. Seems ordinary, right? No. This is our problem, this is the problem of all Luthori, not their problem nor my problem or someone else. The problem is that reactionism and fascism saw a resurgence with the rise of the fascist Fatherland Front and this started to become a serious problem which places democracy on thin ice. The conscription is not virtuous. It is not effective. It does not respect civil liberties. It resembles or even sometimes reaches fascism. It is authoritarian. It is anti-democratic. And we will together unite against conscription and be the champions of the civil liberties! Not me, not you, not him, not her, but us! Our proposal for solving this problem is reinstatement of civilian national service and exemption of conscientious objectors from combatant roles. But given the fact that it is impossible to convince the far-right, we will have to wait up to the next election. And worse, this conscription will last... 18 months? That is way too much and proves my point. But... if you do not want to go to the millitary, what will you do? You have only two options: you will rather ignore the laws and refuse to go, or you will emigrate from Luthori and go to a country without conscription and wait the repeal of it. You have not much choice. You have only two choices if you do not want to go to the conscription. But is it really necessary? Unfortunately yes because it is impossible to convince the rightist parties." The protests, while starting as isolated rallies, quickly grew into a movement of mass mobilization and the situation remains tense. The people continue to call for the abolition of the conscription, and major organizations like some political parties and many civil society organizations express solidarity with the protesters. We will see what happens next in this year. |
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| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 434 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 216 |
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