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By APD writer Aditya Nugraha
LONDON, Sept. 25 (APD) - The United Kingdom (UK) Prime Minister Boris Johnson is still adamant with his Brexit strategy, rejecting calls for him to resign after the Supreme Court found him of breaking the law for telling the Queen to suspend the parliament.
Eleven judges at the court have unanimously ruled that Johnson has committed unlawful act for suspending the parliament five weeks before the October 31 Brexit deadline.
"I must say that I strongly disagree with this judgment and we in the UK will not be deterred from getting on and delivering on the will of the people to come out of the EU on October 31," Johnson said to respond the ruling.
Related to the Supreme Court’s ruling, members of parliament would return to Westminster on Wednesday.
The court’s president, Lady Hale, said that the parliamentary suspension took place on such an exceptional circumstances.
The court ruled that parliamentary suspension was an illegal act.
Responding the court ruling, Johnson political opponents have called the prime minister to step down, saying that people and the parliament can no longer trust him anymore.
“Boris Johnson has been found to have misled the country. This unelected prime minister should now resign," Labor party leader Jeremy Corbyn said on Wednesday.
Johnson other opponent, the Liberal Democrats, said that the court’s ruling has highlighted flaws in Boris Johnson’s character.
“Boris Johnson is not fit to be prime minister. He has acted unlawfully in trying to silence Parliament, trying to silence the voices of the people because he does not want to be held to account,” Liberal Democrats’ Jo Swinson said.
Suspension of British parliament was following the lawmakers’ rejection on either Johnson’s no-deal Brexit strategy on October 31 or a parliamentary election due to the rejection.
The parliament sought extension of Brexit schedule until early next year as separation from the European Union (EU) has serious consequences to the nation’s economy.
The Brexit was resulted from 2016 referendum, showing 52 percent of UK voters wanted the Brexit.
(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)
