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📜 Exploring Historic Votes from Parliaments all over the World 🗳️ Decisions that shaped History 📩DMs open for Suggestions ‼️Follow for more 📷Check Media Tab
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👑➡️🏛️Sanford B. Dole, the first and only elected President of the Republic of Hawaii, led the government that replaced the Hawaiian monarchy 🏛️➡️🇺🇸He also oversaw the islands’ transition from an independent republic to a US Territory as the first Territorial Governor of Hawaii
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📜Annexation of the Republic of Hawaii (Newlands Resolution) 📍United States 🇺🇸 🗓️June 15, 1898 🏛️House of Representatives ✅209 For ❌91 Against
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✅Voted For Censure / No Confidence (271) 🔘RN (123 out of 123) 🟣LFI (71 out of 71) 🟢ECO (35 out of 38) ⏺️UDR (16 out of 16) ⭕️GDR (15 out of 17) 🔴SOC (7 out of 69) ⚪️LIOT (1 out of 22) 🔵DR (1 out of 50) ➖Non Inscrits (2 out of 9)
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📜Vote of No Confidence in the Lecornu Government (Censure) 📍France 🇫🇷 🗓️October 16, 2025 🏛️Assemblée Nationale ✅271 For ➖306 Not Voting ❌The motion failed to secure the required 289 votes and is therefore rejected 🤵♂️Sébastien Lecornu remains in office as Prime Minister
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Tomorrow I will post the Motion of No Confidence against the Lecornu Government (Censure) regardless of the result 👍
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🇺🇸 He avoids jail after President Thomas Jefferson invites him to come back to the United States in 1802 ☹️ Once back, he is considered an outcast because of his radical views 🪦 He dies in 1809, and only six people attend his funeral
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📘 He explains this plan in his book "To the People of England on the Invasion of England" 🚫 Napoleon rejects this proposal and focuses in consolidating power, eventually crowning himself Emperor 🗣️ He calls Napoleon "The Completest Charlatan that ever existed"
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❌ He came back to the National Convention and voted against the 1795 Constitution for not granting universal male suffrage ⚔️ Years later, he meets General Napoleon to discuss a plan to invade Britain and overthrow the government with the support of the British populace
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👑 During Louis XVI’s trial, he makes a deal with George Washington to exile the King in the USA and votes for this lenient penalty ⛓️ He is jailed by the Montagnards during the Reign of Terror 🤝 James Monroe, US Ambassador to France and future US President achieves his release
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✍️ Writes The Rights of Man, and the UK tries and convicts him in absentia for seditious libel 🗳️ Despite not being fluent in French, he’s elected to the French National Convention
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THREAD 🧵 💡 A little bit of Trivia to celebrate the success of the last post, Meet Thomas Paine: 🇬🇧 Born in the UK in 1737 🇺🇸 Moves to the American Colonies and helps spark the American Revolution 🇫🇷 Moves to France and inspires the French Revolution
📜Vote on the Penalty for Louis XVI 📍First French Republic 🇫🇷 🗓️January 17, 1793 🏛️National Convention 🟢361 Immediate Death Penalty 📗26 Death Penalty and Discuss Postponement (Mailhe Amendment) 📕44 Suspended Death Penalty 🔴290 Lenient Penalties
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Imagine it's 1793, you are a Deputy in the National Convention. Louis Capet has been found guilty of conspiracy against public liberty and attacks against the general security of the state. What punishment are you voting for?
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📜Vote on the Penalty for Louis XVI 📍First French Republic 🇫🇷 🗓️January 17, 1793 🏛️National Convention 🟢361 Immediate Death Penalty 📗26 Death Penalty and Discuss Postponement (Mailhe Amendment) 📕44 Suspended Death Penalty 🔴290 Lenient Penalties
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⛓️Since Chavistas still needed one more vote to give absolute powers to Maduro they accused one of the 3 Independents (Aranguren) of corruption, lifted her immunity by a simple majority vote and a PSUV substitute replaced her, giving PSUV the needed 99 votes for the Enabling Act.
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🧹The PSUV leadership expelled Governor Briceño from the party and lost 3 deputies in the National Assembly, who sided with the Governor and became Independents.
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🛢️In 2012 an oil spill occurred in the Guarapiche River (Monagas), caused by a leak at PDVSA facilities. Mr. Briceño, the governor of Monagas (PSUV) denounced on a TV interview that the Chávez Government and PDVSA were covering and downplaying the incident.
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🦂After the newly elected deputies took office, the Chavistas succesfully bribed 3 opposition deputies into turncoating and joining the PSUV faction.
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🚨After the election, and before the newly elected deputies took office, Chávez was granted his third Enabling Act by his party's controlled National Assembly.
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⚠️Despite Opposition parties (MUD + PPT) receiving +50% of the votes in the legislative elections, gerrymandered districts gave PSUV a 98 seats victory, one seat short of a 3/5 majority.
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📜Law to grant Absolute Powers to President Maduro 📍Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela 🇻🇪 🗓️November 19, 2013 🏛️Asamblea Nacional ✅99 For ❌60 Against
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