Janoslav Csoňka is the current Chair of the Minority Caucus in the Federal Assembly – a role he took up in 2023 after serving as the Unionist Party’s nominee for Prime Minister. He represents Preaisk in the lower house and is a former State Assemblyman.
There are times when we all must be patient. Let process do its thing. Wait for evidence to emerge, or truths to come forward. Let experts deliberate or leaders decide. There are also times when we must stand up and say that a process isn’t working – that those truths, that evidence or decisions are not forthcoming fast enough, at all, and that we have been patient for too long.
This is that moment. When we must be very clear the time for waiting is over – and that the Polascianan people deserve to know what conversations their government had in their name with foreign states. What agencies knew before some of our fellow citizens lost their lives in tragic terrorist attacks and how politicians responded. Most importantly, who was responsible for crimes against the people – trying to fix an election result and undermine the very democracy we have worked so hard to build.
On each of these injustices, it is time for answers. I have sat backed and watched as the state has tried to move forward. I have, like you, waited patiently for answers. I have also seen, in Karasicena, our government come up with endless excuses to avoid releasing papers, reports or providing full details to inquiries. We must now consider why this is.
Is it because they are worried about the answers contained within those pages? Frightened by what people might say when in the witness stand? Or is it less insidious and perhaps that they simply don’t know how to grip these crises and help the public understand what is going on? Why has our Prime Minister not spoken to the people and shared with us what he knows? What is he afraid of?
That is the question I will ask today in the Federal Assembly – the house of the people. And one I will put to a vote, working with my colleagues – giving the government a chance to agree with us that we must push now for answers. To release the report into Polascianan negotiations with Kadikistan, to publish the findings of the inquiry on the New Year’s Day attacks and to call on our highest court to get back in session and uncover the answers we need on the manipulation of elections.
The government has more power than anyone else, because on each of these it is the one standing in the way. Today, we will force them to move – one way or another.
The people deserve justice – the government must not stand in the way
Janoslav Csoňka is the current Chair of the Minority Caucus in the Federal Assembly – a role he took up in 2023 after serving as the Unionist Party’s nominee for Prime Minister. He represents Preaisk in the lower house and is a former State Assemblyman.
There are times when we all must be patient. Let process do its thing. Wait for evidence to emerge, or truths to come forward. Let experts deliberate or leaders decide. There are also times when we must stand up and say that a process isn’t working – that those truths, that evidence or decisions are not forthcoming fast enough, at all, and that we have been patient for too long.
This is that moment. When we must be very clear the time for waiting is over – and that the Polascianan people deserve to know what conversations their government had in their name with foreign states. What agencies knew before some of our fellow citizens lost their lives in tragic terrorist attacks and how politicians responded. Most importantly, who was responsible for crimes against the people – trying to fix an election result and undermine the very democracy we have worked so hard to build.
On each of these injustices, it is time for answers. I have sat backed and watched as the state has tried to move forward. I have, like you, waited patiently for answers. I have also seen, in Karasicena, our government come up with endless excuses to avoid releasing papers, reports or providing full details to inquiries. We must now consider why this is.
Is it because they are worried about the answers contained within those pages? Frightened by what people might say when in the witness stand? Or is it less insidious and perhaps that they simply don’t know how to grip these crises and help the public understand what is going on? Why has our Prime Minister not spoken to the people and shared with us what he knows? What is he afraid of?
That is the question I will ask today in the Federal Assembly – the house of the people. And one I will put to a vote, working with my colleagues – giving the government a chance to agree with us that we must push now for answers. To release the report into Polascianan negotiations with Kadikistan, to publish the findings of the inquiry on the New Year’s Day attacks and to call on our highest court to get back in session and uncover the answers we need on the manipulation of elections.
The government has more power than anyone else, because on each of these it is the one standing in the way. Today, we will force them to move – one way or another.
Deputy for Preaisk since 2023, having served as the Unionist Party nominee for Prime Minister. Federal Assembly minority Chair.