Chapter 689 Impeachment Case
With Purficott’s deliberate connivance, these people who advocated the restriction of Purficott’s power were not stopped.
They even submitted a bill of impeachment to the National Assembly, requesting a vote on limiting the power of the Northern Lords.
If this impeachment bill is passed, it means that the power of the northern lords will be limited. Perficott can no longer do anything beyond the National Assembly. All policies in the north must be supervised by the National Assembly. Under this policy, the implementation of all policies must be approved by the National Assembly.
This proposal is actually a good thing from a national level.
Bringing local power back to the central government, enhancing the prestige and authority of the central government, and avoiding political outbursts and political struggles between the central and local governments are a good thing no matter how you look at it.
But from the perspective of the North and Purficott, the matter is not so good.
The North is the fiefdom of Perfectcott, or the territory she opened up alone. She almost single-handedly saved the entire country in exchange for the North's transcendent status in the political arena of Victoria and its political independence.
Even the entire National Assembly system and cabinet system were established under the promotion of Purficott, but now they have to use this set of things she established to limit her power. This has to be said. A kind of dark humor.
Of course, for Purficott herself, she did regard this as a joke.
Because without Purficott's permission, there would have been no proposal; without her permission, these people would not have been able to make inflammatory speeches.
Even without Purficott's permission, these people would never have walked into the National Assembly Building. Instead, they would have shot themselves eight times in the back and committed suicide. After their death, they would have been held accountable for treason.
Things are so exaggerated, or in other words, in today's Victoria, the support Perficott receives is so ridiculously high.
These young people who are trying to limit Purficott’s power and implement constitutional reforms in the country may think that Purficott is a dictator, a conservative die-hard in the feudal system, and the biggest enemy of freedom and progress. .
However, they have never thought about why Perficott has such a high support rate in the north.
They never tried to understand why Perficott received widespread support from the people in the north, including workers, small businessmen, big capitalists, nobles, and even the royal family itself.
These naive and simple people simply believe that as long as they replace it with a constitutional system that symbolizes freedom and democracy and carry out so-called progressive reforms, they can make the country better and make everyone better. Everyone became rich.
The reason why Purficott has such a high support rate is simply because she holds power, controls the army, and oppresses the people to support her.
As long as her power is limited so that she can no longer oppress the people, the people will inevitably stand up against her.
In reality, however, the answer is often the opposite of what they think.
Because the relationship between Purficott's popular support and the power she held was the opposite of what they thought. Purficott first gained support before she had power, not that she gained support after she had power.
The reason why she gained support was not because she was a noble, or because she had a good relationship with the royal family. Although these factors had a certain influence, Purficott was able to become the leader of the North The fundamental reason for the Realm Lord was that she was the only one who could save the Victoria Empire at that time.
Everyone has seen the power of the apocalyptic winter. For the people at the lowest level, they simply realize that it was Perficott, the northern lord, who established the refuge in the north. It ensured their survival, allowed them to have food to eat, clothes to wear in this apocalyptic winter, and a warm place to live so that they would not die of cold or starvation, or be treated casually like livestock.
It is precisely because of this that the people, nobles and capitalists in the north unanimously support Perfectcott.
Even though she adopted a repressive dictatorial policy to rule the north, and even though she massacred those who opposed her, the people still supported her rule.
On the contrary, if she cannot feed the people, even if Purficott is as moral as a saint and resolutely implements freedom and democracy, she will still not get support from anyone, and will even be rejected by the so-called democracy Kill.
The reason behind this is very simple, because what the people want is not empty and frivolous freedom and democracy, they want real bread and houses.
Without bread and houses and empty talk about freedom and democracy, do we have to follow what someone in the original world said, "Although they lost their lives and homes, they gained freedom"?
Perficott doesn’t think that the people in the north will listen to such nonsense, and he doesn’t think that the members who can sit in the National Assembly and participate in the voting are also mentally ill.
On the rostrum, the Duke of Gloucester patiently listened to the speech of the congressman who initiated the impeachment. Even though the other party extended the original five-minute speech to nearly half an hour, Purficott himself listened with interest. It's really hard for him to object.
After the other party finally finished a bunch of empty speeches emphasizing 'freedom and democracy', the Duke of Gloucester couldn't wait to announce the start of voting: "Members of parliament are invited to vote! Does the National Assembly want to vote? Pass this impeachment case against the Earl of the North."
The congressman who initiated the impeachment looked forward with expectation. Everyone, until now he still did not forget to incite others: "Everyone! Think about the voters who elected you! They will not want to see you surrender to dictatorship! The freedom and democracy you symbolize! Please do it for Freedom and democracy, cast your sacred vote!”
Listening to this man’s speech, Purficott almost laughed out loud in the gallery.
It’s all talk about freedom and democracy without any real substance. If these congressmen believed him and passed the impeachment case, it might be the biggest fun that Purficott has heard today.
However, she didn't seem to want to see this kind of fun. After all, if the impeachment case was to be passed, there would still be some trouble in handling it.
So, before everyone started voting, Purficott interjected: "If my legal rights as the Northern Lord are infringed, then I will take back all the use of my patented technology in the empire. Permission."
"You are interfering with freedom and democracy! The free people will not be threatened by you! All you do is just a desperate struggle!" The other party obviously did not understand what Purficott said. The meaning inside is still shouting loudly.
"Silence! Silence!" As the Speaker, the Duke of Gloucester knocked on the table. It was not until order was restored in the venue that he announced the start of the vote again.
(End of this chapter)