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Sure enough, the situation was exactly as Prime Minister Heinlein expected, after Karl accepted President Wilson's fourteen recommendations.

The political forces behind it immediately claimed that this was a helpless move by the Habsburg family to ensure their status and to evade responsibility for this war. More importantly, the Allies did not express their position on Carl I's words, which made many people feel very worried.

Just three days after Carl announced his acceptance of Wilson's fourteen recommendations. Also in the parliament building, a new proposal is being debated before the final vote.

"I am against changing Austria to a republic."

A congressman voiced his opinion hoarsely.

And the congressman's words immediately attracted a counterattack.

"Do you want to continue to stay in the kingdom, you can guarantee that the Habsburg family will not regain power. Or you can leave room for the Habsburg family to operate for your own selfish desires."

The royalist congressman, seeing that he was a republican congressman who refuted him, immediately defended: "This is not to leave space, my opinion has already included restrictions on imperial power. The Habsburg family will give up The right of allegiance to the government and the military, and leave that right to our parliament and only keep the nominal leader of the country. How can that leave room for manoeuvre?”

The words of the royalist lawmaker won the approval of some neutral lawmakers.

In this proposal for a political structure, the royalists made significant concessions in order to keep the Habsburgs from being punished. First, they divided the rights currently possessed by the Habsburgs according to the political structure of the Kingdom of Sweden. They assigned military power to the government, and they assigned the leadership and oversight of the government to the parliament. He only retains the right to his reputation, and he also handed over a lot of property of the Habsburg family to the government in the name of needing relief for the suffering people.

However, the royalist proposal was rejected by the Republicans. Their reason is that the Habsburg family has taken a lot of property from the government over the years, which belongs to the people, so the property of the Habsburg family needs to be assigned to the government. In addition, for the rights of the Habsburgs, these people are unwilling to give even the nominal monarch. It was directly rejected on the grounds that the republic was suitable for the current Austria. Therefore, the royalists can only deny the republic first, otherwise the Habsburg family will not even have a place to stay.

"But how do you guarantee that the Entente will not hold the Habsburgs accountable. If they were still monarchs, wouldn't these responsibilities be taken by the government?"

Faced with the language of the republican's coercive inquiries, the congressman also retorted: "Then how do you know that the Entente Congress will hold Habsburg accountable.

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"I'm here for the people's consideration."

"You are making a fool of yourself."

"You're the mess."

"What did you say."

"I am talking about you"

"court death."

"oops."

A good debate immediately turned into a boxing match, which made the parliament hall even more lively.

"Pull them off."

The President of Berlik watched the two members who had quarreled because of their political differences and then had physical contact, and quickly asked the guards to pull them away.

The two members who were pulled apart were disheveled, one had a bruised left eye, and the other was bleeding from the corner of his mouth.

Looking at the actions of the two, the president of the parliament, Berlik himself, had some impetuous emotions flooding into his heart. I saw him on the podium and said to the members present: "This proposal is very important, it is related to our future system issues. And it is very difficult for us to make such an important decision once in our life, so I I implore you all to discuss peacefully and stop making this sacred parliament noisy like a market."

Berlik's words did not make the two sides put down the scene of the dispute, but only minimized physical contact. And the President of the Berlik Parliament can do nothing about this scene. Since the past year, there has been no peace in the parliamentary discussion. However, they have not been the president of the council for a few days, so let them go.

Thinking of this, the President of Berlik felt that he was also disheartened.

Debates and disputes will come to an end. When the time for debate is up, the vote is announced by the Berlik Assembly Speaker. These MPs can only wait quietly for the results after voting. At this moment, it seemed that the parliament had finally returned to its original appearance, and only the tellers were counting the votes.

"One vote for a republic."

"The kingdom has one vote."

"The kingdom has two votes."

"Two votes in a republic."

"Three votes in a republic."

...

"A total of 263 people participated in this vote. After counting, 167 votes were in favor of the republic system and 96 votes in the kingdom system."

After counting the votes, the teller announced the result of the vote. This result naturally cheered the republicans, while the royalists were downcast.

After the teller finished speaking, the Speaker of Parliament Berrick took the stage and said in a calm tone. "Everyone knows the result. I hope everyone present will respect the result of this sacred vote. My words are finished."

After the Speaker of Parliament Berrick finished speaking, the royalist leader called a young man and said, "Tell Your Majesty the result, this time we really have nothing to do."

After the young man nodded, he immediately rushed to the Hofburg. Today, the Habsburg family is anxiously waiting for the result of the parliamentary vote.

When the results were passed to the Hofburg, the people of the Habsburg family who were waiting for the news all had expressions of panic and anxiety as if the end was coming.

Someone was crying on the spot. "How can this be done?"

Thinking of myself, who has always been pampered, will rush for life in the future, which caused many people present to shed tears.

The cries of the Habsburg family present, and the actions of these clansmen annoyed Karl I.

"Okay, stop crying. Let's think about what we're going to do next."

Carl's words stopped the crying clansman and looked up at the young patriarch.

An older clansman suggested: "Why don't we go to lobby again and let the parliament vote again."

This unreliable proposal was refuted by a young clan before Carl could answer. "That's impossible. What are you supposed to be in Parliament? Those republicans can still get us to vote again. If I say let the army that is still loyal to us control the Parliament and directly overturn this result, then the compensation for Britain and France will be more. Losses, I'm sure they'll agree."

Carl almost fell over when he heard it, this proposal is even more unreliable than the last one. All this time, these people are still reluctant to bear these powers. For this he had to speak. "It looks like we can't continue living in Austria. Let's think about where to move temporarily."

And if Karl admits the decision of the parliament, the Habsburg people present have no other ideas. At this time, some people proposed to go to Germany to avoid it, and some people retorted that it is better to go to Spain than to go to Germany. For a while, there was a lot of debate about where to go, and some people even proposed to go to Romania, on the grounds that Karl's sister Sophie Marie was the Queen of Romania.

Carl was bewildered by these people's proposals, and even scolded the people who proposed to go to Romania. Romania is currently at war with Austria-Hungary. What is it to go to Romania by himself? The pride of the Habsburg family makes him unable to accept this proposal.

After everyone was scolded by Carl, only then did a sensible person say: "Let's see which country is willing to accept us."

At this time, everyone realized that it is not just a question of their willingness to go, but who is willing to accept their hot potato is the problem.

Carl made a decision at this point. "Let's decide, first ask which country is willing to let us temporarily avoid it."

Subsequently, the Habsburg family sent an application for asylum to the currently neutral country, but many countries did not reply, and only a few countries agreed to their request.

After comprehensive consideration, Carl took out a receipt agreeing to their asylum and said. "That's it."

Everyone sees that this is a Swiss receipt. As a famous neutral country in Europe, this is also the best choice for the Habsburg family.

And Carl didn't say a word in his heart. "Switzerland is the closest to Austria. As long as there is a chance in the future, the Habsburg family can return to Vienna as soon as possible."

It seems that Karl is also quite unwilling to hand over power to the Habsburgs.