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Duke Essex returns to the room. The vote on Peter was not going to happen. He begins to thumb through the constitution a bit.
Let’s do some math:
Likely Votes against the Star League:
Emma
Isis
Peter
Yvonne
Likely Votes in Favor:
Blake
Comstar
Essex
Marik
Kurita
Taurian
Rasalhague
You need a 2/3rds vote to pass.
7/11 is not it. You need 8/11 or 8/12.
Hmmm….
“Did you know that while it requires a 3/4s vote to suspend the Constitution for a vote, it only requires a 50% to suspend the League Council Rules?”
Some of the people ask what Essex is thinking.
“Well, do we have a local ambassador on Tharkad from the Outworlds Alliance?”
“We can vote to add the Outworlds Alliance into the Star League. That’s a normal vote that requires a majority vote. However, remember that I was the first state to get into the Star League after the original formation, and that was not anticipated in the initial Constitution, so we added a rule that required everyone to wait three years until the next Conference to make it in. We can simply suspend that rule with a 50% vote, instead of the required 3/4’s.
Here’s what we do. Table the No-Confidence vote. Vote to add in the Alliance. We just need a majority to do so. Then we vote to suspend the rules and bring the Alliance into the League right now, today. We need a majority for that too. Then we vote, and we win the no-confidence vote 8/12, assuming the Alliance votes yes.
That way, we win the No-Confidence vote by adding the Alliance. If you weren’t interested in the Alliance, we could go with Clan Ghost Bear or something. But the Alliance seems the logical step after bringing in the other two major Periphery realms."
After a quick check with legal teams that verified everything, the Ambassador was called in and arrived a few hours later.
It took just 30 minutes to convince her of the need to add her realm and she was in, even though she would be unable to contact her ruler. He had asked that she present at the Conference and ask to be added to the Star League. Avellar will love this!
So we have found a parliamentary trick to get around the other folks.
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