Extreme Cold Era: Shelter Don't Keep Waste-Chapter 751 - 704: Voting Dispute

The cabinet's resolution was put to the National Assembly for voting, which is now the main political process of the Victor Empire.

The cabinet can decide on general matters on its own, but once a cabinet resolution is formed, namely issuing new policies or laws and regulations, it needs to be reviewed by the National Assembly to determine whether it is approved.

Once a resolution is passed, it has legal effect and must be adhered to and executed.

Of course, if someone is determined to oppose it, it's not impossible to overturn a successfully voted resolution, but in that case, at least one-third of the members must jointly propose and obtain over 70% of the members voting in favor to overturn the existing resolution.

Relatively speaking, passing a resolution is simpler; a cabinet resolution or a proposal by over ten members can be put to vote, with more than half agreeing to pass it.

So, today's resolution vote made the Royalist Party exceedingly tense.

The Northern Faction holds a considerable numerical advantage in the National Assembly, since member elections are done by region, and it's only natural that the people from the Northern Faction have the upper hand.

Because of this, when the National Assembly votes, the Northern Faction can often easily sway the voting results.

Conversely, when the Royalist Party wants to push a resolution through or have it rejected, they often need to ally with members from other factions, and sometimes even need to win over members of the Northern Faction to achieve their goals.

This undoubtedly makes the Royalist Party appear very passive in the National Assembly. 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

However, it is precisely for this reason that the Royalist Party this time has exerted all their efforts to win over and persuade members of other factions, determined to firmly reject this cabinet resolution.

"The resolution on appointing Count Perfikot Brandelis as the special advisor to the cabinet is now open for voting." Duke Gloster had finished reading the resolution content and announced the start of voting.

Everyone cast their votes, representing themselves, with a firm and sacred attitude.

No matter their intentions, in the hearts of the vast majority of members, they represent the will of the nation's citizens, exercising a sacred authority that symbolizes freedom and democracy.

After all, they are the first batch of members of the Victor Empire, and despite some parasites, the vast majority still harbor ideals.

Whether the Northern Faction or the Royalist Party, they believe they are acting for the good of the country.

It is worth mentioning that the voting process in the National Assembly was actually designed by Perfikot, seemingly to uphold the principle of anonymous voting, Perfikot painstakingly installed a voting device at each seat in the assembly hall.

The voting device has three buttons: Agree, Disagree, Abstain, and once a member presses one of them, electricity will connect to the display board hanging in the assembly hall, lighting up an indicator lamp representing the voting result on the display board.

Agree votes will light the green lamp, disagree votes will light the red lamp, and abstain will turn off the lamp.

The surroundings of the voting device are completely shielded so that only the voter can see what they voted, and the voting results won't show who voted for what; it will only display the final tally results.

It's safe to say, if someone truly has a sense of justice or thoughts that contradict their faction's position, they can make a choice here.

Because of this, the Royalist Party can confront the Northern Faction even when their numbers are not advantageous.

Otherwise, every vote, the Northern Faction could just vote down the Royalist Party, making the National Assembly pointless.

But the result of this vote surprised everyone from the start, because red lights indicative of disagreement kept lighting up on the display board, and the green lights representing agreement took a long time to light up.

"The final vote results are out: 91 valid ballots, 77 disagree votes, 14 agree votes, 9 abstentions, with a total of 100 people voting, the voting result is valid, the resolution failed." Duke Gloster was also surprised by this result, but he still read out the results according to procedure.

"The resolution was rejected? But… why?" A Royalist Party member was completely stunned.

They essentially burned their bridges to reject this resolution, conducting numerous exchanges of interests to win over other factions to cast disagree votes.

But in the end, you're telling me the Northern Faction also opposed the resolution passing, leading to a high-turnout rejection of the resolution?

So weren't all my previous efforts in vain?

In such bewilderment, someone naturally couldn't bear the doubts in their hearts and looked towards the Northern Faction members, directly questioning them aloud in the assembly hall.

However, the Northern Faction members showed no intent to explain, except one who looked at the Royalist Party's bewildered eyes with apparent satisfaction, disdainfully saying, "Why did you believe Count would accept a position subordinate to the cabinet and assembly?"

After speaking, he and other Northern Faction members left the venue together.

The Northern Faction member's disdainful answer left everyone silent; they felt an immense humiliation, and a shocking fear of Perfikot's ambition and arrogance.

What they had worked hard to deny, others regarded with disdain.

What they never dared to imagine was just a target in the eyes of others.

This all-around backwardness and disdain made everyone sense the unevenness of the world and an anger that hit the top of their heads.

"What exactly does she want? Does she want to be emperor?" A Royalist Party member couldn't bear the humiliation and anger, along with that shocking fear, and uttered words that shouldn't have been spoken aloud.

No one responded to these words, but in their hearts, everyone unconsciously wondered, does Perfikot really want to be an emperor? What exactly does she want?

To the cabinet, they are also afraid, since Perfikot persuaded the Northern Faction members to reject their resolution, clearly indicating she does not accept their proposal.

This also means Perfikot will not come back to assist them.

But these are just secondary; for the cabinet, without Perfikot, they merely work less efficiently and things don't get done quite so well, not that the cabinet can't function without her.

What truly frightens the cabinet is the notion of Perfikot being above them.

After all, in the entire Victor Empire, only one person can wield power above the cabinet, and that is Her Majesty the Empress herself.

And Perfikot, she indeed has a claim to the throne, if she really wants, there is a way for her to inherit it.

But this only exists in theory as a possibility.

Does Perfikot intend to make it a reality?