Party Members Detained Over "Foreign Plot"
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Hundreds of senior BSNP party members have been arrested by security forces in the past 36 hours. The members have been accused of "plotting with a foreign power to subvert Barmenistani democracy." A spokesperson for the military police said that 731 party members had been arrested and detained over receiving bribes from a "hostile power" to vote against the confirmation of Shophet Tawaryan as the ruling party's General Secretary at the next party Congress. Many of the arrested members are candidates for election as party delegates - a group that chooses the party leader every year.
Military police arresting a party member
Though it has not been publicly announced, many believe that the hostile power in question is Deltaria and its CARSS alliance.The BSNP has been divided over the issue of the government's rapprochement with Vanuku, with many leftwing members remaining stoutly in favour of the traditional alliance with Deltaria while the more pragmatist wing led by Tawaryan, in favour of a more balanced approach to the two Terran powers.