The MAN PIN parliamentary faction has taken note of a statement by the Prime Minister, in which he formulates a rather peculiar constitutional innovation. The Prime Minister seems to believe that it is his role to judge the work of Parliament.
The Prime Minister is making mistake after mistake:
1. It is not up to a minister (or prime minister) to interfere with Parliament regarding the execution of its Rules of Order. This is a reversal of constitutional law: it is Parliament that supervises the government — not the other way around!
2. The primary duty of Parliament, and the task of its Speaker, is fundamental to safeguarding democracy and ensuring that the government and its ministers are accountable before Parliament.
3. Only in totalitarian countries do leaders believe they have absolute power to decide, act, and undo without giving account or explanation to the people.
4. More than three weeks have passed without the government, or the Prime Minister, feeling the need to appear before Parliament to answer for the disgraceful incident and the allegations of corruption. A governmental act has been manipulated by party leadership to conceal the truth. The Receiver has still not received written authorization to hand in his medal before Parliament.
5. To top it off, the supposed analysis by the Prime Minister is incomplete because it does not clarify whether the Speaker of Parliament consulted the initiators before postponing or canceling the meeting. Nor does it indicate how many meetings were postponed, canceled, or deferred.
6. Prime Minister Pisas is searching for letters that inform Parliament of the Speaker’s decisions, without mentioning how those decisions were made in each case. Even if mistakes have been made in the past that violated the Rules of Order, that is no justification for repeating them. In other words, even if a thousand mistakes were made before, that does not justify one today.
7. Furthermore, with what legal authority did the Prime Minister gain access to Parliament’s archives to conduct an investigation? Where is the request from Parliament authorizing him to receive that information?
8. It is curious to know on which law the Prime Minister bases his supposed authority to play judge and decide that the Speaker acted correctly. A basic principle of the rule of law is that all authority must be anchored in legislation.
9. While the Speaker of Parliament canceled the meeting and even stated that the initiators should reconvene it for another reason, the Prime Minister concluded his statement on Sunday, October 26, 2025, by saying that he had promised the Speaker to come to Parliament accompanied by the Receiver to answer parliamentary questions. This reveals a contradiction between the statements of these two figures.
10. The question remains: when will the meeting requested by us and other factions actually take place? The people are still waiting to learn what truly caused the shameful dispute between the Minister of Finance and the Receiver — a conflict that led to allegations of corruption and ultimately to the minister’s resignation. Parliament, notably, was never informed why the minister stepped down.
It is saddening to see how a Prime Minister, who should know better, tramples on the constitutional rights of Parliament members and sets a poor example for young people by persisting in claiming that an unlawful act is right. By acting on a Sunday, the Prime Minister has committed an armed assault on parliamentary democracy. In doing so, he has humiliated his country, the experts in constitutional law, and the office of the Speaker of Parliament — steering the nation down the dangerous path of totalitarian dictatorship.
Press release: MAN PIN