17 Jul 2022, 14:32

Political earthquake in Lusitania and Vettonia

The Liberal Party of Lusitania and Vettonia has today triggered a political earthquake of incalculable magnitude for the time being. In the middle of the summer recess, they announced their presentation to the General Diet of a law decriminalising abortion in some cases, in what is interpreted as an act of defiance of the conservative government.

So far there is no official reaction from the government. But certain Conservative Party MPs have made it clear on different occasions that they will vote against it. The chances of this law succeeding are very slim, but not impossible with the support of the social democrats and federalisms.

The plenary has been convened for an ordinary session on 15 August. But no one is ruling out an earlier date in the form of an extraordinary plenary session. In any case, the government's position is extremely fragile at the moment. Two parties in coalition legislate and vote without counting on each other. Whatever Governor General Jose Miguel Orato may say to the press at any given moment, the government is broken, and urgent solutions must be found before Lusitania and Vettonia are compromised at a time when the economy is doing well.

What is certain is that nothing will happen this week for the government irremediably requires the approval of its constitutional reform to gain at least a little extra oxygen.