1723. The end of Galactic Republic (4)
"This is sensational nonsense and a baseless slander against us with ulterior motives!" Sheev-Palpatine's consultant Koru Ya-fan D'ron (Crueya When being interviewed by the media, Vandron said angrily, "Those gathered here today are the best members of the Sub-Adult Group. They are also the best generation of Galactic Republic and the future of Galactic Republic! Your doubts are the biggest blow to these outstanding young people!"
Koru Ya-fan D'ron said loudly, "Of course the Sub-Adult Group cannot recruit only human members! This is just a coincidence, the Sub-Adult Group accepts The first application received and the first member recruited are only human beings. Of course, the Youth League will recruit non-Human race members, and we have indeed received many applications from non-Human race!"
"So has anyone other than Human race joined?" the reporter asked persistently.
"All applications are under review. If someone's application is rejected, you should pay more attention to your own reasons. Because the Sub-Adult Group represents the future of Galactic Republic, and only the best young people from Galactic Republic can join!" Koru Ya-fan D'ron answered ambiguously.
Click, the holographic projection was turned off, Chi Eekway Papanoida, a congressman from the planet Pantora, said worriedly, "Things can't continue like this... Anti-inhumanism, totalitarianism, Palpatine is pushing the Galactic Republic in an extremely dangerous direction."
"There's no doubt about that, but I'm very concerned that there's nothing we can do now," Councilor Bana Breemu said with a sigh.
"Our previous impeachment action against Palpatine did not have any impact on him." Member Meng-Mothma said, "The power of the parliament has become smaller and smaller, and there are less and less things we can do. Now Palpatine has almost lost all control."
Bail-Organa remained silent. He looked at the members who were discussing the plan in vain, and his heart was extremely cold.
They have been fighting persistently against Palpatine since the beginning of the war. Although there are no aircraft, artillery, or tanks and warships in this battle, the verbal confrontation is still full of various conspiracy struggles, games and compromises.
But their fight had little chance of winning from the beginning. Ever since Palpatine received the emergency ruling, he has been invincible. The remaining time is just the last struggle of these members of Congress.
Bail-Organa sighed and said, "Palpatine still cares about his support and public opinion, otherwise he would not let Commission for the Protection of the Republic and the Sub-Adult Group do so many things to improve his support rate."
"He wants to make himself Galactic Republic's Dictator, and he is planning to retain the power given to him by the parliament forever." Fang Zha, a grumpy member of the assembly, roared, "We must take action!"
"Let's submit a joint letter." Bail-Organa said.
"A joint petition? No! We should start the impeachment process again!" Fang Zha said loudly.
"It's useless. The impeachment process has no effect other than irritating Palpatine. Instead, it will only give him enough excuses to arrest us." Bana Bream shook her head and said, "I already said during the last impeachment that to a certain extent, we are breaking the law."
"We exercised the legitimate rights of the parliament to launch impeachment. What kind of law did we violate?!" Fang Zha roared.
"Member Bana is right, Palpatine has emergency ruling power! Because in everyone's eyes, he is leading the fight between Galactic Republic and Separatists! If he initiates impeachment at this time, he can completely remove the illegal label." Meng-Mothma said.
"Is it useful to submit a joint letter? We lower our heads and beg him?" Fang Zha said unwillingly.
"That's right, just beg him. This is our only way..." Bail-Organa glanced at the faces of everyone around him and said slowly, "Behind each of us, there are millions of people from one or even several planets. We cannot put our emotions above the interests of the planet and the safety of the people. This is our basic principle as members of parliament."
Everyone lowered their heads.
"Let's jointly submit a letter. It's a very painful statement. I hope Palpatine can change his mind." Bail-Organa said, "As long as we can get more support from MPs, I believe the weight of this letter will definitely be something Palpatine cannot ignore!"
"I agree, let's do it." Meng-Mothma said.
20BBY, August 15th.
One week after the defeat of the Yago-Dour battle, more than 2,000 members of Congress, led by justice-minded congressmen such as Bail-Organa and Meng-Mothma, jointly signed an initiative and submitted it to the desk of the Speaker Sheev-Palpatine.
This proposal is called Petition of 2000 (the Petition of 2000).
In this initiative, the congressmen conducted an in-depth analysis of the current situation of Galactic Republic and the harm of this war continuing to this day.
They believe that although this war is currently at a stalemate, it has caused the Separatists forces to continue to retreat. Now the only area that Separatists can control is their core area. In the early days of the war, Separatists's arrogance had been severely dealt a blow. It can be said that the war has achieved phased results.
But at the same time, this war also caused within the Galactic Republic to have many conflicts and its finances were on the verge of collapse. Under such circumstances, forcibly attacking the planets where Separatists has the strongest power is likely to cause tragedies like Modell Sector Raid to happen again.
Therefore, the lawmakers believe that it is time to cool down the war and return the war-torn galaxy to normalcy. This is not to compromise with Separatists, but to take time to recuperate and at the same time reform the problems that Galactic Republic exposed during the war.
Members mentioned in the initiative that they hope Chancellor Palpatine can fulfill his promise when he was granted emergency ruling powers by Parliament at the beginning of the war and return the power to Parliament, and then both parties will discuss how to carry out reforms to make Galactic Republic's administrative efficiency more efficient.
At the same time, in the proposal, the congressmen also implicitly suggested that the reason why some battles failed was actually because power was not effectively monitored.
Just like Battle of the Modell Sector, there were too many Black Sun in the course of this battle. If there is parliamentary deliberation and supervision during this process, then this hasty offensive may have a chance to be stopped.
This Petition of 2000 was very sincere and his posture was very low, almost speaking to Palpatine in a pleading tone.
This is the last effort for democracy by those members of Republic Senate who still have illusions and hopes for a democratic republic.
Because other than that, they have no other choice.
After this Petition of 2000 was delivered to the desks of Chancellor of the Republic Sheev-Palpatine, as Bail-Organa said, the signatures of more than 2,000 people gave this initiative enough weight, and Palpatine could not easily ignore this initiative.
However, when he saw this proposal, Palpatine's deep eyes lit up with anger!