1st Monarchy Crisis

A Monarchist Poster made during the 3rd RoP Elections

### Causes

Election of the Monarchist Party, The Kelp War, and the unelected founding of the Monarchy

### Length

* Protests:

September 25, 2019 - September 28, 2019

* Coup Attempt:

September 25, 2019

### Result

Failure of the coup and success of the peaceful protests

### Key People

Belgium, Britannia, Cosmic, Tsar\_\_Putin, Zee, and Netherlands

## Overview

After the Kelp War ended, the SDP called for a snap election and the Monarchists won a narrow shock victory with the MPP supporting them in a coalition. Belg had become the Prime Minister and Polynesian lawmakers started founding a monarchical system without a national vote. Peaceful protests against the lack of a vote started and Nethy used the instability as a chance to start a coup of the country after losing the 3rd RoP federal election.

## Protests

**Motives**

As soon as the Monarchist Party formed government, they declared the formation of the Polynesian Monarchy without holding a Parliament vote or public referendum. Independent Candidate Tsar\_\_Putin, representative and Count of Jam County, considered such a move as setting a dangerous precedent of authoritarianism if such an event were to go without scrutiny. Some vocal supporters of the early monarchy such as Sealand argued that the Moarchist Party's move was justified because it was their main agenda and therefore "won" the right to force such legislation through without a vote. Seeing this attitude as harmful to democracy, Tsar and Zee decided to apply pressure on the government via peaceful protest.

**Demands**

Although some members of Tsar's protest movement were sympathetic to the idea of a Polynesian Constitutional Monarchy, they took issue with the lack of a vote on the issue. Tsar was initially against the monarchy, seeing it as a future source of great instability, but kept his personal opinions out of the movement's agenda to reduce polarization in the country. Their demands were to have a national referendum on the issue, and said they would accept any result as long as Polynesians had their voices heard in a fair referendum.

**Membership Decline**

Zee, the other member of the protest movement, was in favor of a Constitutional Monarchy because she thought it would be cool. She joined Tsar's early protests for the sake of maintaining Polynesian democracy. After marrying Cosmic, who was favored to be the one taking the throne in the near future, she left the movement and became a staunch monarchy supporter.

**The First-Ever Polynesian Debate**

Moderated by ColonelKai, Tsar and Cosmic held an initially chaotic debate in an effort to understand each other's opinions and potentially reach a compromise. Tsar called Cosmic a threat to democracy, while Cosmic called Tsar unpatriotic. After half an hour of rhetoric, they eventually came to understand each other's viewpoints. After more time, Tsar convinced Cosmic to support his side of the argument which compelled him to hold a national referendum on the issue of monarchy in the RoP. With that, the first-ever debate about an issue in the RoP concluded with the protests considering it as a win for them.

**Victory and End**

With both sides finally understanding each other, the to-be king Cosmic decided to declare a referendum on behalf of the RoP government to decide whether a monarchy were to be established. The vote was a landslide victory in favor, with Tsar being one of only two people voting against it. Despite the result, Tsar declared the protests a resounding success, since they achieved their goals of removing potentially dangerous legal precedents and held a fair national referendum. As promised, the movement accepted the referendum result and disbanded.

## National Conservative Party Coup Attempt

Any protest could be used to cause turmoil, and Nethy did just that as he bombed the remains of the capital city, New Ballville. He then began to attack, and attempted to coup the nation but was stopped as the Deputy Prime Minister Brit. Neth used a wither and GMC to fight back. Owner Sealand soon stepped in and temporarily banned Nethy for a few days to curb his GMC abuse, putting an end to the coup.

An unintentional event caused by Nethy's violence was the use of lethal military force by RoP law enforcement against Tsar's peaceful protests. This was because Nethy initially posed himself as a member of them and tried forcing his agenda upon Tsar and his movement. Seeing the two together, Brit mistook the protesters as allies of the coup and almost killed them all in the streets, but they combat logged to preserve their lives. Tsar swiftly denounced Nethy and the coup, and resumed his protest once Brit came offline. Brit would come online later on, but violence would not continue as he got a better hold of the situation. The protests continued on peacefully.

## Aftermath

The monarchy was formed the next day and the protesters accepted it. The failed National Conservative Party coup and Nethy's anger at the loss popularized the theory that Nethy told Kelp to bomb the capital during the Kelp War so he could have a snap election and take power again.