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Brexit dispute: Johnson wants to push through new elections

2019-09-09T05:34:27.079Z


The House of Commons is again to vote against the new elections demanded by Boris Johnson. According to media reports, the British PM is working on a plan to circumvent the anti-no-deal law.



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Last Wednesday, he had already failed, now threatening British Prime Minister Boris Johnson again a defeat in the lower house. The head of government is seeking parliamentary approval for a new election on 15 October. In this way, he wants to amend a law against unregulated Brexit still with a parliamentary majority. But the opposition has already made it clear that it will not allow it. A new election requires the approval of two thirds of all MEPs.

The Prime Minister wants to lead his country out of the international community on 31st October, "come what may." However, the law passed last Friday stipulates that the government must request an extension of the Brexit deadline if no agreement is ratified by 19 October.

It is speculated that the government could, for want of alternatives, try to ignore the law. According to the Telegraph newspaper, Johnson's advisers met in London on Sunday to work out a strategy to avoid extending the Brexit deadline. According to Johnson, although he would comply with the law drafted by Parliament and ask the EU for a postponement of the withdrawal date. In parallel, however, he would declare in a letter that the government was against a postponement beyond 31 October.

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Foreign Minister Dominic Raab spoke in an interview with Sky News about a "miserable law" that Johnson will scrutinize very closely. The Prime Minister told reporters on Friday that the law only "theoretically" envisages a Brexit shift - upsetting his critics.

The pressure to act for the no-deal opponents is enormous, because Johnson has ordered the parliament a several-week compulsory break. She could start already on Monday evening.

Johnson visits his Irish counterpart Leo Varadkar in Dublin on Monday morning to discuss one of the most controversial points in Brexit - the Irish frontier issue. The EU and its member Ireland want to avoid checkpoints on the border with Northern Ireland, because a new division of the island could cause unrest. Until another solution is found, Northern Ireland will continue to have some EU rules and Britain to remain in the EU Customs Union. Johnson rejects this "backstop" solution.

Röttgen sharply criticizes Johnson

The CDU foreign politician Norbert Röttgen criticized the Brexit course of the British Prime Minister of the ARD program "Anne Will" surprisingly clear. "The damage caused is dramatic," said the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Bundestag. "If that happens, the UK will not survive either." Scotland will hold the second independence referendum, Northern Ireland and Ireland may also hold referendums. The Tory party is basically already destroyed. And "the film" is not over yet.

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Greg Hands, a Tory MP and former Secretary of State at the UK Department of Foreign Trade, discusses "The Will of Boris Johnson - Will the British Premier Get Away With It?" At Anne Will.

Johnson's plan was to suspend the parliament to keep it out, then to make a no-deal Brexit, and shortly thereafter to beat the Brexit party with "that trophy" and go into the polls, Röttgen said. With the suspension of the parliament Johnson committed a serious error. He had united the hitherto split opposition. Johnson is now trapped.

Addressing Johnson's party colleague, Tory MP Greg Hands, Röttgen said, "You're trying to sell the people stupid, no one believes that explanation."

Source: spiegel

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