Valruzia

[Aethan]

KPW announces first package of laws targeting salaries, education, religion and basic goods

Group of laws expected to pass thanks to the party's absolute majority in the Sejm; Chancellor Nowik vows to become "a hurricane"

March 5670 [backdated]

Chancellor Nowik arriving at the Sejm before his reelection as new Chancellor, last month

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During his investiture discourse, he promised to deliver "swift and fast". And now, one month after his new appointment as Chancellor of Valruzia, Iwan Nowik has made public the first package of laws that will be voted in the Sejm, and that are expected to pass as the Communist Party of Valruzia holds a – slim – majority of seats in the Valruzian parliament, with 301 seats out of 601. 

"For many years, even decades, coalitions in this nation have limited the improvement of our society due to compromises and brakes put in place by opposing factions. But this time, for the very first time in our democracy, we are free to work towards our only goal: the real improvement of the lifes of our citizens, the main and sole reason why Valruzians have decided to put their faith in our party and dethrone the shameful and distopic coalition of Sovereign Valruzia, Forward Valruzia and Dignity and Progress that have delivered absolutely nothing during the past five years"

This first package of laws, set to be voted next week, includes the following proposals:

• Introduction of a maximum income law to cap wages at 10x the median wage
  
• Reform of the high education law to make all public universities in the nation free-of-charge to be applied from the next course (period 5670-5671), as well as establishing a 100VPO monthly student stipend, to be increased to 500VPO for those students who fail no subject during the previous academic year.
  
• Working hours reduction in all public companies to 30h/week without salary reductions, and start of negotiations with private companies to achieve a 35h/week in the next 3 years.
  
• Introduction of a price control cap on basic goods, to be negotiated.
  
• Ban on religion being taught in public schools, withdrawing the option to be chosen as a subject.
  
• Reform on the electoral law by decreasing the voting age to 16.
  

At the same time, Chancellor Nowik has announced that he is currently reviewing new reforms to the "political system", including the election of deputies and their credentials. Among other things, the KPW is currently studying a new law to make all lawmarkers' education accesible to the public, and making lying in your educational training punishable with the immediate loss of the seat and subject to a financial penalty, while also making sure that every lawmaker has "a job to return to" once their period in parliament is over.

Reactions from the opposition have not taken long to appear, with the Yeudi-interest party Our Homeland mainly criticising what they call "an attempt to the freedom of religion" of their people at public schools after the proposed ban in religious education. Meanwhile, the conservative Forward Valruzia alliance have said that "this is just the start of the communist dictatorship" and have called on the rest of political parties in the Sejm to unite under a "common front" against the KPW. From its part, Sovereign Valruzia regrets "the path the KPW has taken", saying that they "do not recognize the party that has ruled many times along with them". 

"We are not going to back down, no matter how high the opposition screams at us"

has commented Chancellor Nowik

"When you receive such a clear mandate, the only thing you can do is stand by your ideas and your program, and people can trust the KPW in doing so".