Chapter 645: The People's Choice
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Referendum?
Such a term is not uncommon in modern society, and every time there is an election or a major regulation to be introduced in those Western countries, a referendum is held.
Any citizen can cast their vote for or against.
Referendums are also uncommon in Samba countries, but all elections for the president and prime minister, as well as the election of local officials, require a referendum, but since ancient times, no referendum has been directed against the aristocracy.
Whether it is the succession of the king or the inheritance of the nobility, it is carried out according to a set of rules of the nobility, and there seems to be nothing that needs to be decided by the people, so Isabella felt a little strange when she heard the word referendum.
"How is there going to be a referendum?" Isabella asked.
"All the citizens of the samba country will hold a referendum, whether the samba country will maintain the status quo, or make changes to let the aristocratic leadership withdraw from the stage of history." Zhao Chunliang said seriously.
"This can't be!!" Isabella shook her head firmly before she had time to think about it.
"Why?" Zhao Chunliang asked.
"Samba is a royal country, in this country, the royal power is always above any other power, if the people are allowed to vote, it is equivalent to saying that the people's power is also above the royal power, then this country will be chaotic!!" Isabella said.
"Now those countries are attacking the samba country with royal power above any other power, and if you make such a move, you can just refute them, and such a referendum can also really let the nobles of the samba country see what the current situation is, and the aristocracy of the samba country is not accepted by the people, or is it accepted by the people, if there is no referendum, you will never know. Isabella, the samba country really needs to change, it needs to change, our change is not to abandon the aristocratic system, but to make this system more integrated into this society, we should learn to face ourselves, only in this way, we can progress, I have experienced something in Ulato, which made me firm in the idea of change, if the aristocratic system does not change, even if this time survives the crisis safely, then what about the next time? What about next time? When the problems accumulate to a certain extent and finally erupt, at that time, no one can guarantee that the aristocracy of Samba Country will be able to continue to exist. Zhao Chunliang grabbed Isabella's hand and said seriously.
"Change..."Isabella looked at Zhao Chunliang suspiciously, and asked, "Is there really a need for change?" ”
"Let the people decide for themselves whether they need it or not." Zhao Chunliang hugged Isabella and said, "If they really love their queen, they won't let you be hurt no matter what." ”
Isabella hugged Zhao Chunliang tightly, her thoughts were very chaotic, but her heart slowly calmed down.
Half a day later.
Samba country local time in the afternoon.
A statement issued by the royal family along with the government shocked the entire samba country and the world.
The Samba royal family decided to hold a referendum and leave the decision to the people.
For the next three days, all citizens of Samba will be able to go to the polling stations in the cities with their ID cards to vote, and there are two options to vote, one is to keep the current system unchanged, and the other is to abolish all the administrative rights of the aristocracy, which can only be regarded as a symbol of honor.
"Referendum? Samba country actually held a referendum? Is the queen of Samba a bad brain? Who wants to be governed and oppressed by others? Her actions like this are to send herself to the death penalty field, hahaha! After learning that Samba was going to hold a referendum, the president of the United States happily drank two large glasses of whiskey while talking.
China.
The No. 1 chief of Shenzhou knew the whole situation of the Samba referendum at the first time, and he only made one instruction on this.
It would be nice to leave everything to the people to decide.
The referendum began without warning.
In order to prevent fraud, Samba specially invited a United Nations working group to supervise the referendum in Samba.
Everyone felt that this would be the first direct confrontation between the nobles and the people of Samba Country, but they didn't expect that in the past three days, the entire Samba Country would be unusually quiet.
No nobles came forward to shout that there could be no referendum, and no common people came forward to attack the aristocracy, including the Freedom and Equality Organization, which disappeared in the course of three days.
Of course, he didn't really want to disappear, but he had to disappear because the Freedom and Equality Organization was infighting.
Immediately after returning to the headquarters of Freedom and Equality, Klose addressed Nicholas Brown. Krell's men were cleaned up, however, and had already gotten Nicholas. The henchmen instructed by Krell had already left the Liberal Equality Organization before Klose's purge began.
Probably one in five of the entire Liberty and Equality organization left to choose to follow Nicholas. Crel, and Nicholas. Krell also officially established himself and founded his own organization, called Long Live the Truth.
Klose naturally couldn't just watch Krel's organization grow and grow, so the Freedom and Equality Organization launched an attack on Long Live the Truth, and it was precisely because of this relationship that this organization did not move at all during the three days of the referendum.
The three days passed quickly, and during these three days, Zhao Chunliang and Isabella spent almost all of their time in the palace hall, not only the two of them, but also many nobles stayed in the palace.
They had been more or less resistant to the referendum, but Zhao Chunliang succeeded in convincing them.
So everyone is waiting here, waiting for the result of the people's choice.
At 12 o'clock in the afternoon, the three-day referendum officially ended, followed by a lengthy counting process that would last two days, supervised by a United Nations team to prevent fraud.
"You say, how will the people choose?" On the last day of the vote counting, Isabella grabbed Zhao Chunliang's hand and asked a little uneasily.
"If you ask yourself to be worthy of the people, the people will naturally be worthy of you." Zhao Chunliang said.
Isabella nodded, she has done a lot of things that benefit the country and the people since she took the throne, and she asked herself if she was worthy of the people, but she didn't have much confidence in what the people thought.
As time passed, the results of the vote count in each city slowly came out.
In the largest square of the capital, King's Square, a huge LED display was erected with two numbers representing the two results of the vote.
A large crowd gathered in King's Square, at least tens of thousands.
The dense crowd sat quietly on King's Square, watching the two numbers on the monitor.
It is clear that both numbers are increasing, with red representing the status quo and only a little ahead of blue.
The votes for each city are counted, and as time goes on, the cities become fewer and fewer, and everyone knows that the results will soon be in.
Will it keep centuries of tradition unchanged, or will the aristocracy be withdrawn from the stage of history?
Everyone held their breath.
Isabella also held her breath, she didn't expect the gap between the two groups to be so close!
She asked herself that she had done a lot for the people, but the people didn't seem to approve of it.
"You must know that the aristocratic class is a huge class, and there are good aristocrats and naturally bad ones. If it weren't for such data, would you believe that there were many people who were already dissatisfied with the rule of the aristocracy? Zhao Chunliang asked.
"I don't know." Isabella shook her head and said, "I didn't expect... I really didn't expect the data to be so close, it seems that we are really not recognized by many people in China. ”
"The results are coming out soon, and only the last city is left." Zhao Chunliang said.
"The last city is the capital." Isabella looked at the screen and said, "The capital has the largest population, so the statistics are the slowest. ”
"Now the difference in votes is only more than 100,000, and those who support maintaining the status quo are only a little ahead, and the capital, as your palace, is also the closest contact with you, and the voting results in the capital show to a large extent the people's love for you, let's see, the people love you more, or oppose more." Zhao Chunliang said.
"Hmm!" Isabella nodded.
The data of the last city was finally imported into the system.
Both data lines, red and blue, are growing.
At this moment, the blue color suddenly stopped growing, while the red color continued to grow, and it became faster and faster.
The entire King's Square people all looked at the data with their mouths wide open, and the difference between the two sets of data was only about 100,000 before, but after the introduction of this last city, the red one was far ahead.
When the two data lines were frozen, people were surprised to find that the red one was ahead of the blue one by more than five million!!
The population of the entire capital is more than 6 million, that is to say, the people of the capital, at least 5.5 million or more, voted for maintaining the status quo, that is, these more than 5.5 million people are satisfied with the current living situation!!
After a pause of several seconds, the entire King's Square erupted in earth-shattering cheers.
Most of the people in King's Square were residents of the capital, and they knew that they and those around them voted red, but they didn't know that so many people voted for red.
Such a huge difference in votes made everyone excited.
Isabella jumped up and hugged Zhao Chunliang tightly, not caring about the image of the queen at all.
Zhao Chunliang patted Isabella on the back with a smile and said, "It seems that the people of the capital still love you very much." ”
Isabella burst into tears, hugged Zhao Chunliang tightly, and couldn't say a word.