Lambert Mably

Lambert Garcia Mably is a Confederal politician who currenly represents the Confederal Member of Achi in the Chamber of Deputies. He holds the Member's only seat. He is a member of the Democratic Party.

Earlier life and education

Born in Port-de-l'Enfant, Achi. He completed secondary school before accepting work as a docker, following in his father's footsteps. He joined the Fraternidad de Estibadores Nabarrosos but did not join any political party. He became a leading activist and organizer in the union as well as in the community. It was not until the formation of the Confederated Peoples that he joined the Democratic Party and ran for public office, basing his support largely in Achi's black working class.

Election to the Chamber

In 2007, Mably was elected to the first ever Chamber of Deputies. He managed to emerge with a plurality of votes in a very crowded field where the candidates of at least twelve different parties were all serious contenders. Mably was the first choice of only 11% of the electorate but he received a great deal of the preference flow from the other candidates. It is believed that the field will not be so crowded at the next election and Mably is generally caution about seriously alienating any large elements of his constituency.

Parliamentary service

Mably serves on the Standing Parliamentary Committee on Environment and Natural Resources and chairs the Subcommittee on Agriculture and Fisheries. He has sponsored legislation designed to help in the prevention of piracy and in the apprehension and prosecution of pirates. He has also promoted legislation designed to protect the interests of small farmers and fishers and to maximize their direct access to consumers and legislation designed to prevent racial discrimination in the work place and in the practices of law enforcement.

Quotes

"The central organizing principle of the Confederated Peoples can only be one of inclusion. Nothing else can justify or even explain the moment of our founding, when such diverse nations decided to become one. Yet, I also see that principle as one which remains largely unrealized. What else can one call it when over 80% of national law enforcement agents are of European descent when barely 40% of the total population is?"

"The so-called Kairis policy, that we should work with whoever is willing to work with us, is nothing but a recipe, not only for failure in our foreign policy, but for the erosion of our moral credibility. How can we be looked upon as a beacon of liberty in the colonial and post-colonial world when our President is glad to make pleasant chit-chat with leaders of Iesus Christi and Iansisle?"

"VERITAS is not only outdated and fundamentally divorced from our actual national interest and security needs, it also stands in the way of the completion of the real axis on which our security must rely. The logic of VERITAS implies, if it does not quite command, the centrality of the VERITAS arrangement in the security planning of the states involved. Not even the staunchest defenders of VERITAS have seriously considered it to be the primary or organizing factor in our foreign and defense policy. Yet this anachronism is allowed to stand in the way of expanding arrangements with Xirnium, Amestria and the other major democratic powers."