Sure enough, the situation turned out just as Prime Minister Heinlein expected, after Karl accepted President Wilson's fourteen suggestions.
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 the war. More importantly, the Allied Powers did not express their position on Karl I's words.
This makes many people feel worried.
On the third day after Carr announced his acceptance of Wilson's Fourteen Recommendations, also in the parliament building, a new proposal was being debated before the final vote.
"I oppose changing Austria to a republic."
One congressman expressed his opinion loudly and hoarsely.
The congressman's words immediately triggered a backlash.
"If you want to continue to stay in the kingdom, can you ensure that the Habsburg family does not regain power? Or you can leave room for the Habsburg family to operate for your own selfish desires."
This royalist congressman immediately defended himself after seeing that the person who refuted him was a republican congressman: "This is not to leave room. My opinion already contains restrictions on imperial power. The Habsburg family will give up."
The right of allegiance to the government and the military, and giving this right to our parliament and retaining only the nominal leader of the country. How can this leave room for maneuver?"
What this royalist MP said won the approval of some crossbench MPs.
In this proposal regarding the political structure, the royalists made major concessions in order to prevent the Habsburg family from being punished. First, they based the political structure of the Kingdom of Sweden on the current rights held by the Habsburgs.
Carry out division. They assigned the military power to the government, and assigned the leadership and supervision power of the government to the parliament. They only retained honorary rights, and also handed over a lot of property of the Habsburg family to the government.
In the name of providing relief to the suffering people.
However, the Royalists' suggestions were refuted by the Republicans. Their reason was that the Habsburg family had taken a lot of property from the government over the years, and these belonged to the people, so it was necessary to transfer the Habsburg family's property to the people.
All property was assigned to the government. In addition, these people were not even willing to give the Habsburgs the rights of a nominal monarch. They directly rejected the republic on the grounds that it was suitable for the current Austria. Therefore, the royalists could only deny the republic first.
Otherwise, the Habsburg family wouldn't even have a place to stay.
"But how do you guarantee that the Allies will not hold the Habsburgs accountable? If they were still monarchs, wouldn't these responsibilities be borne by the government?"
Faced with the language of the Republicans' persuasive questioning, the congressman also retorted: "Then how do you know that the Entente Congress will hold the Habsburgs accountable."
"I am doing this for the sake of the people."
"You're just messing around."
"You are the one who is messing around."
"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 away."
Seeing the two members of Congress quarreling due to different political opinions and then getting into physical contact, Speaker Bollick quickly asked the guards to separate them.
The two congressmen who were pulled away were disheveled, one had a bruise on his left eye, and the other had blood from the corner of his mouth.
Seeing the actions of the two people, Speaker of Parliament Burlick himself felt a little impetuous. He walked up to the podium and said to the members present: "This proposal is very important. It affects our future."
Institutional problems. And it is rare for us to make such an important decision once in our lifetime, so I beg you to discuss it calmly and don't let this sacred parliament become noisy like the market."
Berwick's words did not make the two parties put down the dispute, but only minimized the physical contact. And Parliament Speaker Berlick could not do anything about this scene. Over the past year, there has been no peace in the parliament's discussion of issues. But he did not
The Speaker of Parliament will be elected in a few days, so let them go.
Thinking of this, Speaker Bollick felt that he was also disheartened.
Debates and disputes will eventually come to an end. When the debate time is up, Speaker Berwick announces the start of voting. These members can only quietly wait for the results to come after the voting. At this moment, it seems that the Parliament has finally returned to its original state.
Only the counting clerks were left counting the votes.
"One vote for a republic."
"One vote for the Kingdom."
"Kingdom system with two votes."
"Two votes for a republic."
"Three votes for a republic."
…
"A total of 263 people participated in this vote. After counting, 167 votes were in favor of a republic and 96 votes were in favor of a kingdom."
After counting the votes, the teller announced the results of the vote. This result naturally made the republicans cheer and the royalists crestfallen.
After the teller finished speaking, Speaker Berwick came to the stage and said in a calm tone. "Everyone knows the result. I hope everyone present will respect the results of this sacred vote. I have finished my words."
After Parliament Speaker Berwick finished speaking, the royalist leader called a young man and said: "Tell your Majesty the result. We really have no choice this time."
The young man nodded and immediately rushed to the Hofburg. Today, everyone in the Habsburg family was anxiously waiting for the results of the parliamentary vote.
When the results were delivered to the Hofburg, the people of the Habsburg family who were waiting for the news had expressions of panic and anxiety, as if the end was coming.
Someone cried on the spot, "What should I do?"
Thinking that I, who have always been pampered, will have to struggle for life in the future, many people present shed tears.
The cries of the Habsburg family present, and the actions of these tribesmen troubled Karl I deeply.
"Okay, don't cry. Let's think about what we should do next."
Karl's words caused the crying tribesmen to stop and look up at the young tribe leader.
An older tribesman suggested: "How about we lobby again and get the parliament to vote again."
This unreliable proposal was refuted by a young tribesman before Karl could answer. "This is impossible. What are you doing as a parliament? Those republicans can make us vote again. I would like to say that it is not possible for us to vote at this time."
The army loyal to us takes control of the Parliament and directly overturns this result. Then we will compensate Britain and France for more losses, I believe they will agree."
Karl almost fell over when he heard this. This suggestion was even more unreliable than the last one. It had been so long, and his people were still reluctant to part with these powers. For this reason, he had no choice but to say, "It seems that we can't continue to live in Austria.
Let’s first think about where to move to temporarily.”
When Karl acknowledged the parliamentary decision, the Habsburgs present had no other ideas. At this time, some people suggested going to Germany to escape, while others retorted that going to Germany would be better than going to Spain. For a while, everyone present was concerned about where to go.
They all argued endlessly, and some even suggested going to Romania because Carl's sister Sophie Marie is the queen of Romania.
Karl was confused by the suggestions of these people, and even scolded the tribesmen who proposed to go to Romania. Romania is currently at war with Austria-Hungary, so there is no point in going to Romania by himself. The pride of the Habsburg family prevents him from doing so.
Accept this offer.
After everyone was scolded by Karl, an understanding person said: "Let's see which country is willing to accept us first."
At this time, everyone realized that it was not just a question of whether they were willing to go, but also who was willing to accept their hot potato.
Karl made a decision at this time. "Let's decide like this. First ask which country is willing to let us avoid it temporarily."
Subsequently, the Habsburg family sent applications for asylum to currently neutral countries. As a result, many countries did not respond, and only a few countries agreed to their request.
After comprehensive consideration, Karl took out a receipt agreeing to their asylum and said, "That's it."
Everyone saw that this was Switzerland's reply. As a famous neutral country in Europe, this was also the best choice for the Habsburg family.
There was something in Karl's mind that he did not say. "Switzerland is the closest to Austria. As long as there is a chance in the future, the Habsburg family will be able to return to Vienna as quickly as possible."
It seems that Karl was quite unwilling to hand over power to Habsburg.
