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Prime Minister’s Speech Ahead of Double Referendum
Good evening,
Tomorrow, we stand on the threshold of something extraordinary.
For decades, we have upheld the values of representation, democracy, and justice. But as we look around, we know the old ways have faltered. Too often, power concentrates in the hands of the few. Too often, the voices of the working majority are muffled by the machinery of privilege and influence.
The referendum you will vote in tomorrow is not a rejection of democracy—it is its radical renewal.
Sortition, the selection of citizens by lot to serve in governance, is not a fantasy. It is an idea rooted in the earliest democracies, now reimagined for our time. It is not chaos; it is order without elitism. It is not randomness; it is fairness at scale. And it is not naïve—it is bold.
As Leader of the Modern Marxist Party, and Prime Minister of a Coalition Government built on shared values with our partners in the Advanced Humanitarian League, I stand here to tell you: we believe in people. Not just experts. Not just career politicians. People.
This referendum is not about left or right. It is about trust. It is about faith in your neighbour, in your classmate, in the care worker, the driver, the artist, the mother, the youth who has never known a world where their voice shaped law.
Some say citizens are not ready to lead. I say: who better? Who better than those who live under the laws to help shape them?
If we vote yes, we take a first step toward a governance that listens, truly listens—because it is made of us, not just for us.
Let us be clear: this is not the end of politics. This is politics reimagined.
Tomorrow, I urge you: vote with hope. Vote with courage. Vote for a system that trusts its people, not one that cages their power behind ballot boxes and campaign budgets.
Vote yes to Sortition.
Tomorrow, we face a choice not of policy, but of principle—a crossroads between the future and the past.
Let me be absolutely clear: the proposal before us is not reform. It is regression. It is not evolution. It is erosion.
Feudalism—by any name, with any modern polish—is a system rooted in hierarchy, in inherited power, in submission to lords instead of solidarity with equals. It is a system that divides us into rulers and ruled, into landlords and labourers, into those who inherit control and those who are born to obey.
And we say: no more.
As Prime Minister of this Coalition Government—formed between the Modern Marxist Party and our partners in the Advanced Humanitarian League—I speak with one voice for all who believe in human dignity, in equality, and in justice.
Feudalism is not a solution to modern uncertainty. It is a symptom of fear—fear of freedom, fear of responsibility, fear of change. But we are not afraid. We will not surrender the rights our ancestors fought to win. We will not hand over our children’s future to those who long for crowns and chains.
We have built a democracy—not perfect, not finished, but ours. We have fought for workers’ rights, for public education, for health care, for the right to speak, to strike, to vote. And now, some would have us trade all that away—for stability? For loyalty? For land in exchange for labour?
No.
Feudalism is the past. It was built on servitude, enforced by violence, justified by divine right. It has no place in a society built on cooperation, on shared prosperity, on reason and mutual respect.
I ask you—tomorrow—stand not just for yourself, but for all those who cannot vote: the young, the poor, the voiceless, the future.
Vote against this attempt to reforge the chains we once broke.
Vote no to feudalism.
Vote yes to freedom, to equality, to the dignity of the human being.
Thank you. Good night—and may tomorrow be a day of resistance and resolve.
Cynthia Erickson,
Prime Minister.
