President Neina Arana announced today that effective immediately, Milintica’s Representative Assembly will be suspended. Milintica will also dissolve all political parties other than the Milintican Communist Party.
“Milintica is facing unprecedented dangers from multiple hostile powers in Caxcana. In addition, Milintica’s goal of supporting and defending socialist and communist movements around the world is under increasing threat from capitalist and reactionary regimes in alliance with corporate forces. In order to survive all of those challenges, it is essential that Milintica work with a single united voice and purpose,” Arana told Milintican National Television.
Arana said that the MCP will govern the country through its Central Committee, and that future elections would be held “in the appropriate time once Milintica is safe from its current state of emergency.”
The announcement comes as protests in the country have largely subsided, in the wake of a strong police and military presence throughout the country. Activists opposed to the MCP takeover of the country have also reported to DTNS that agents with the country’s National Directorate of Intelligence and Prevention (NDIP) have been arresting and detaining large numbers of people opposing the new government. The MCP has also formed a “Red Wave Guard” of MCP paramilitaries to “help the government and the security forces protect Milintica from counter-revolutionary elements in alliance with the enemies of the state.”
While large-scale protest in the country has mostly been suppressed, reports continue to emerge of efforts by the now-banned Milintican People’s Party and other parties to try to organize resistance to the Arana government. There have also been reports of purges of the security forces, judiciary and military command by the Arana government. Those rumors received at least some confirmation on January 5th when Minister of Justice Patariki Waaka announced that fifty members of the military command and NDIP command, as well as officers of the National Police, would be tried for “seditious conspiracy and treason” in February for allegedly plotting to overthrow the new government.