This only applies to 9 out of 100 members of parliament, and was support by 62 out of 100, so it's not like this is some stealth power grab - assuming all nine of the dissenting MPs are from the Opposition, the Opposition has gone from 38 votes out of 100 to 29.
That said, I don't know how the Latvian constitution works, but I'm wagering the Government can't push through anything with 62 votes for, 29 against that it couldn't already push through with 62 for, 38 against.
The whole point of a democracy is that you can vote out the majority ruling party. Once they start banning minority oppositions from voting at all, it's dead, it's over. The voters who selected those MPs are disenfranchised, it's not a democracy anymore. Very simple.
Most of them are also political opportunists, knowingly lying and manipulating the weakest in our societies.
Their political work mostly boils down to amplifying harmful misinformation and giving it legitimacy and credibility through their office — all for their selfish political ends.
That being said, they are democratically elected representatives, and banning them from the democratic process rightfully raises questions about legitimacy of such measures, regardless of morality of their political ways.
But in addressing those questions, we have to consider consequences of their political action, which are accounted in tens or even hundreds of human lives lost EACH DAY.
What do we value more? Human lives, or the right of immoral political actors to exploit the drawbacks and imperfections of our fragile democratic processes?
Sure, if we do the same for the politicians like New York's governor who forced nursing homes to take COVID-positive patients and actually killed people.
However, is there political action really killing people? The CDC had admitted that they have no data showing that naturally immune people spread the virus [1], but vaccinated people do. So perhaps those politicians are helping save lives by encouraging people to become naturally immune instead!
In other words, you assume they are killing people. That assumption is disingenuous.
> What do we value more? Human lives, or the right of immoral political actors to exploit the drawbacks and imperfections of our fragile democratic processes?
The slowness of democratic processes, and allowing people to make their own decisions are features, not bugs.
Also, the biggest killer of people throughout history has always been governments that are out of control. This is a case of a government going out of control, which has far more deadly potential than not getting vaccinated for a virus with a 99+% survival rate and where the vaccinated still spread the virus.
[1]: https://thefederalist.com/2021/11/12/cdc-admits-it-has-no-ev...
How much are people actually terrified by propaganda in media that are able to justify this decisions? Why we need to repeat history over and over?
