Nadiya

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Head of the Kozaki Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, Olena Kolinenko, has announced today at the press conference in Zarvosopol's Government House, that MIT will take the Nadiyan Commission for Rail, Air and Water Ways to the Supreme Cooperative Court over the issue of the ownership of the metro systems in the two largest cities of the republic, Zarvosopol and Petrograd. The move comes after the refusal of the confederal government to negotiate on the issue and transfer the ownership of the two networks to the Kozaki republican government.

"Let me make it perfectly clear, I think it is petty to hide behind the argument of the confederal capitals here, and even call a simple question of the republics' rights issue as something petty", said the infrastructure minister Kolinenko. "What boggles the government, and me personally, is the hypocrisy of pretending to care about confederalism, but then refusing to live up to it". According to Kolinenko, it has been said time and time again that the Kozaki government has no problem and does not care about the central government's ownership of the other rail infrastructure across the nation. "We found it questionable for the central government to own it, and we simply asked to reconsider it. Then Madam Kozak comes out with her outrageous statement. And now this is a matter of principle."

In a similar statement released later that day, Prime Minister Livytska vowed to support the case of her infrastructure minister, calling it "insulting" that the central government refuses to negotiate or simply talk the issue out, as well as implying that republics are unable to provide high-quality services if put in charge of the underground networks. "Either we are a union of republics, or we are returning to the era of Trigunia and authoritarian Tsardom, that's the choice the courts will have to make, and I am hopeful that the truth will be on our side on this issue".