People's Committees

The People's Committees; Ez: Qihollëjezounnë; Nr: Folkekomiteer, were a series of local-government committees set up after Easwegian independence on December 14th 2017 and which held prominence until August 10th 2019 when they were de jure replaced with the National Directorate, and de facto replaced by the Directorial Government of Easway on January 14th 2020.

## Creation and Aims

When Emizerri was elected as the first head of the new Easwegian Realm on 19th December 2017, he saw a vision for a new Easway which stepped away from its feudal state and towards the modern world. He first and foremost wanted the suffrage of the Easwegian people and to gain true sovereignty but was not particularly ideological. Therefore he set up Peoples' Committees to run each locality the way they saw fit. The only requirements were that the Committees reported to the Comissariats and acted in a manner which followed common law.

Each committee set up throughout Bear Island was vying for the favour of Emizerri and wanted to influence Easway in their political direction. Despite the left wing sounding name of the People's Committees, many were following non left wing principles including some which proclaimed anarcho capitalism. Tver Township, a traditional fishing township held the most left wing committee which advocated worker's co-operatives and a communist economic system, whereas the most right wing advocating classical Liberalism and Laissez faire capitalism was in Baizjillaldëng.

During the next two years, the left wing factions gained popularity within the majority of committees and a Marxist direction was further applied by recommendation to Emizerri.

## Downfall of the People's Committees

Due to the nature of Bear Island's small nation size, many saw the Committees as becoming too pillarised and influential within their own communities, halting a joint-national vision for Easway. When the President of Easway, Aleksou Maximus Desourrë took charge of governmental matters on 12th June 2018, he had a vision to reform the committees and centralise the island from split township governance towards a clear executive. Whilst Emizerri was away from the country for three months from June 2019 which is dubbed the Great Silence, the President used his extra powers to render the People's Committees powerless. The President halted Communist ideology within Easway and enacted a socially democratic and nationalist direction. In justification for the purge, in an interview with Eix Easway Maximus stated "We (Easway) are the spiritual of successor of Rome and it is my duty to work within that mind frame and realise what works for a power and what does not." "My direction for Easway is clear. We don't need communist organisations who can't appreciate the history of Easway tearing this country apart. I have a vision for Easway, and that I shall enact without destabilising elements thinking they are their own free senate"

Emizerri aware that the Presidential branch gaining too much power within the Realm would be bad for future democratic efforts and the people created the National Directorate on August 10th 2019 with Csyeigo as its first Director.

On June 14th 2020 a referendum was held to remove the position of President in Easway, and instead institute three Directorial governors of equal power. This passed, and on January 14th the referendum was enacted. The People's Committees were not included within the new system as the Directors and Governors took over their powers.