Nuclear Armament Referendum to Take Place on 12 November

A referendum will be held in Demarcia on 12 November on whether the Demarcian Nuclear Deterrent Act will be coming into law.

The law has been highly controversial ever since it was proposed on 30 October. Now, following numerous calls from prominent public officials - including Vincent_Wolff and SuperMiron, according to MikeBodwin - for a referendum to be held, the President has decided to hold a referendum, thereby handing a major win to opponents of nuclear armament who would like to see the law struck down.

"I am confident that the No side will prevail in the upcoming referendum", says an anonymous politician supporting the No side, "because I know that the people want a safe, peaceful and non-nuclear Demarcia. I firmly believe the people desire world peace and would prefer to see disarmament over armament."

Meanwhile, MikeBodwin denies that he decided to hold referendum out of public pressure, and insisted he reached the decision on his own.

"At the end of the day I ordered the referendum not because of an opinion, not because of persuasion and not because of gain. It is the morally correct thing to do." said the politician in a wider attack against Penstubal, who had sought to portray the President as somebody caving in to pressure from Vincent_Wolff above all.

Meanwhile, the Social Democratic Party's Secretary has immediately gotten to work on advocacy for the No side, issuing posters saying that victory for the Yes side could mean a repetition of Hiroshima in Demarcia, as well as posters comparing MikeBodwin to Kim Jong-un, the notorious North Korean dictator.

"I'm doing this for a simple reason. I really, really believe nuclear armament is the wrong path to take," Penstubal tells the Demarcian Inquirer. "It's immensely harmful. We don't need it. Demarcia is safe as it is, and this will only ruin our reputation and endanger security on the Planet. We don't need this, and I'm ready to fight, by all means, to prevent our nuclear armament."

Laura Cooper,

Demarcian Inquirer.