Chapter 704 Voting Troubles
The cabinet's resolution was put to a vote in the National Assembly, which is the main political process in Victoya today.
The general affairs cabinet can decide on its own, but once a cabinet resolution is formed, that is, the promulgation of new policies or laws and regulations, it needs to be reviewed by the National Assembly before deciding whether to pass it.
Once a resolution is passed, it has legal effect and must be observed and implemented.
Of course, if someone firmly opposes it, it is not impossible to overturn the result of the successfully voted resolution, but in that case, at least one-third of the members will need to jointly propose it, and more than 70% of the members will vote in favor, in order to overturn the existing resolution.
Relatively speaking, passing a resolution is simple. Cabinet resolutions or joint proposals from more than ten members can be voted on, and only more than half of the people need to agree to pass them.
Therefore, the royalists were particularly nervous about today's resolution vote.
The Northern Faction occupies a considerable numerical advantage in the National Assembly. After all, members are elected by region, and it is natural that the Northern Faction has the upper hand.
Because of this, when the National Assembly votes, the Northerners can often easily influence the outcome of the vote.
On the contrary, if the royalists want to push for the passage or rejection of a certain resolution, they often need to unite with members of other factions, and sometimes even win over members of the northern faction to achieve their goals.
This undoubtedly made the royalist party appear very passive in the National Assembly.
But precisely because of this, this time the royalists tried their best to win over and persuade members of other factions, and were prepared to resolutely deny this cabinet resolution.
"The resolution regarding the appointment of Earl Purficott Brandlis as the special adviser to the cabinet will now begin voting." The Duke of Gloucester had finished reading the content of the resolution and announced the beginning of voting.
Everyone cast their own vote with a firm and sacred attitude.
Regardless of their purpose, in the minds of the vast majority of members, they represent the will of the people of this country and exercise a sacred power, which symbolizes freedom and democracy.
After all, they are the first members of Victoria. Even if there are insects, most of them still have ideals.
Both the northerners and the royalists believe that they are doing what is good for the country.
Speaking of which, the voting process of the National Assembly was designed by Perficott. It seems that in order to implement the principle of secret voting, Perficott painstakingly installed a voting machine on every seat in the parliament hall.
There are three buttons on the voting machine: approve, oppose, and abstain. Once a member presses one of the buttons, an electric current will flow to the display board hanging high in the parliament hall, and an indicator light will light up on the display board to represent the voting results. .
A green light will be on for a yes vote, a red light will be on for a no vote, and an abstention will turn off the light.
The surroundings of the voting machine are completely blocked. No one except the voter himself can see what vote he cast, and the voting results will not show who cast what vote, but will only show the final vote count.
It can be said that if someone really has righteous thoughts or ideas that are inconsistent with their own faction's position, they can make a choice here.
It is precisely because of this that the royalists can compete with the northern faction without having a numerical advantage.
Otherwise, every time there is a vote, the northerners can vote out the royalists, and then the National Assembly will have nothing to play with. It's just that the result of this vote surprised everyone from the beginning, because the red lights on the display board lit up one after another, while the green light representing approval took a long time to light up.
"The final voting results have been released: 91 valid votes, 77 negative votes, 14 yes votes, 9 abstentions, a total of 100 voters. The voting results are valid and the resolution was not passed." The Duke of Gloucester also expressed concern about this result. Surprised, but he read out the voting results according to procedure.
"The resolution was rejected? But... why?" A royalist member was completely confused.
In order to veto this resolution, they almost went to pieces and conducted a large number of interest exchanges to win over other factions to vote against it.
But in the end, you told me that the northern faction also opposed the passage of the resolution, so the resolution was defeated by a high number of votes?
Then weren't all my previous efforts in vain?
In such confusion, some people naturally couldn't bear the doubts in their hearts, looked at the members of the Northern Faction, and directly questioned them in the parliament hall.
However, the members of the Northern Territory faction had no idea of explaining. However, one of them looked at the royalists' confused eyes and seemed to be particularly happy, so he said disdainfully: "Why do you think that the earl will accept the humiliation?" What about the position below the cabinet and parliament? ”
After saying that, he left the venue together with other members of the Northern Territory faction.
The disdainful reply of the Northern Senator silenced everyone. They felt a great sense of humiliation, as well as shock and fear at Purficott's ambition and arrogance.
What they try hard to deny, only to be ignored by others.
What they never dare to think about is the goal in the eyes of others.
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This all-round backwardness and contempt made everyone feel the unevenness of the world, and a kind of anger that went straight to Tianling Gai.
"What does she want to do? Does she want to be the emperor?" A royalist congressman couldn't bear the humiliation and anger in his heart, as well as the shock that made him shudder, and said this sentence that should not have been Words that are spoken.
No one responded to this sentence, but everyone was thinking unconsciously deep in their hearts, does Perficott really want to be the emperor? What exactly does she want?
For the cabinet, they were also afraid. After all, Purficott had the Northern MPs veto their resolution, which undoubtedly meant that Purficott did not accept the plan they proposed.
This also means that Purficott will not come back to assist them.
But these are only secondary. For the cabinet, without Perficott, they are just less efficient and not doing things as well. It is not that the cabinet will stop moving without her.
What really frightened the cabinet was the suggestion that Perficott was above the cabinet.
After all, in the entire Victoria Empire, there is only one person with power who can override the cabinet, and that is Her Majesty the Queen herself.
As for Purficott, she does have a right to inherit the throne. If she really wants to, she can have a way to inherit the throne.
But this is only a theoretical possibility.
Is Purficott going to make it a reality?
(End of chapter)