He argued that for an elected representative to abstain from voting was an abrogation of their principle responsibility upon which parliamentary democracy was based.
Under international law, one state can not unilaterally reject a previously ratified treaty, and the treaty had no clause providing for abrogation by one state only.
Over the next few months, anti-government riots broke out, expressing the nationalist movement's frustration with the government's failure to follow up the abrogation of the treaty with decisive action.
It is the manifestation of a desire for the abrogation of an existential condition of human life, namely the need to always and never unendingly to exercise judgment.