The Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre (NATUC) has is­sued a stern warn­ing against the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment's pro­posed plan to seek par­lia­men­tary ap­proval for a fur­ther three-month ex­ten­sion of the cur­rent State of Emer­gency (SOE).

The labour um­brel­la or­gan­i­sa­tion's state­ment fol­lows a de­c­la­ra­tion from the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al out­lin­ing in­ten­tions to pro­long emer­gency mea­sures. The ex­ist­ing SOE is legal­ly man­dat­ed to ex­pire at mid­night on June 17, 2026.

While ac­knowl­edg­ing the ad­min­is­tra­tion's pri­ma­ry oblig­a­tion to safe­guard pub­lic se­cu­ri­ty, NATUC con­tend­ed that pro­longed in­ter­ven­tions threat­en to dis­man­tle es­sen­tial civ­il lib­er­ties. The union body em­pha­sized that emer­gency rule must not be­come a per­ma­nent fix­ture of na­tion­al gov­er­nance or be used to sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly cur­tail pub­lic speech and leg­isla­tive trans­paren­cy.