In the political program for the second round of reforms in the Papal States published in newspapers, Jérôme Bonaparte clearly felt the embarrassing dilemma of the Papal States being separated but having to do so as a last resort.
The reform emphasized that the Papal State should follow the trend of history and establish a system suitable for the Papal State's national conditions, so the Papal State will implement a two-chamber system.
The members of the House of Lords will be joined by the College of Cardinals nominated by Pope Pius IX and the knights of Rome with noble titles. The House of Commons is elected by all subjects of the Papal States, and a cabinet is formed based on the proportion of the parties in the House of Commons in the House.
If a party in the House of Commons fails to gain a majority in the House of Commons, a person appointed by Pope Pius IX will serve as Prime Minister.
Of course, Pope Pius IX could also appoint his own team of prime ministers.
From this set of political systems, Jerome Bonaparte can see that Pius IX was actually not willing to completely lose his secular power, otherwise he would not have added a clause in the reform political program that the pope could personally appoint the cabinet. s right.
Of course, since the position of the Pope is elected by the College of Cardinals, the College of Cardinals in the House of Lords seems to be just a mascot, but in fact it still vaguely controls the entire Papal State.
In Jérôme's opinion, the second round of political reforms obviously imitated the French political reforms. However, because of the inherent secular and religious characteristics of the Pope, what was a good French political reform turned into a failure in the Papal States. Reform is different.
Although the pope lost some of his rights under the second round of reforms, he still controlled the vast majority of the rights in the entire Papal State.
It is equivalent to changing from a reactionary monarchy to an enlightened monarchy.
The benefit of giving up some of his rights was that Pius IX could continue to gain the support of the majority of Rome.
If there were no interference from external forces, such reforms would allow the Papal States to survive the dangerous European revolutions smoothly.
Can all this really fulfill the wishes of Pius IX?
On July 17, the first vote in the Papal States began. Pius IX and Perelino Rossi went to St. Peter's Square to announce to the residents of Rome the House of Lords and the Lower House, and announced to the residents of Rome that there would be no members of the first cabinet. A list of temporary cabinet members pending the election.
Perelino Rossi was promoted to be the first interim prime minister of the Papal States as he wished, as well as minister of interior and foreign affairs. Bishop Muzzarelli was also promoted to minister in charge of public education, and the remaining ministers such as finance minister and transport minister Most of these positions are held by the clergy, or gentlemen who are close to the clergy.
Although the prestigious nobles in Rome were dissatisfied with Pope Pius IX's appointment of close associates, the vote was about to begin, and they were unwilling to compete with Pius IX on the provisional cabinet matters as they were being used as carrots by Pius IX.
Anyway, they are just a temporary cabinet, once they and their party are successfully elected.
Not afraid that Pius IX was unwilling to fulfill his promise.
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On July 31, a letter from Paris arrived in the hands of Jérôme Bonaparte via the Port of Marseille. The person responsible for delivering the letter was none other than Pesini.
Seeing Pesigny coming from Paris, Jérôme Bonaparte, who was sitting on the desk with his hands folded, quickly stood up and gave Pesigny a hug and said: "Pessini, long time no see!"
"Your Highness, it's great to see you!" Pesini responded excitedly to Jerome Bonaparte.
Later, at the invitation of Jerome Bonaparte, the two sat on the sofa next to the desk.
Upon seeing this, Captain Letty hurriedly brought two cups of coffee, a crystal cup filled with sugar cubes and a small pair of tweezers to Pesini and Jérôme Bonaparte.
"Sugar cube!" Jérôme picked up a sugar cube and asked Pesini if he wanted to add it.
"No! Thank you!" Pesini picked up the coffee and quietly stirred it twice with a spoon. The rising white water vapor continued to pour out of the coffee under Pesini's stirring, and the brown coffee gradually turned into The brown and white soldiers showed a sticky state. After stirring a few times, Pesini gently blew away the water vapor floating on the edge of the cup, then took a sip of coffee, and half of the fatigue from the hard work of driving and horse racing disappeared in an instant.
Under the influence of coffee, the energetic Pesini once again explained the situation in Paris to Jérôme Bonaparte.
Under Cavaignac's blow, the entire Paris experienced a temporary weakness, and now it is back on its feet again.
Physical pain can be silenced through physical means, but mental pain can only be repaired with time.
After the revolution, General Cavaignac encountered strong resistance from the moderate republicans led by Hugo. Hugo even threatened that he would never support an executioner in power.
"Huh? Didn't our Dictator take action against poor Mr. Victor Hugo?" Jerome Bonaparte asked with gloating.
As a rival of Cavaignac, he hoped that as many people as possible would oppose Cavaignac.
To do politics is to make a lot of friends and a few enemies.
"I heard that Cavaignac has lost his temper several times in the office and claimed to arrest Mr. Hugo!" Pesini also said with a gloating tone: "However, our Mr. Declato obviously did not The audacity to imprison Mr. Hugo, who is now preparing for the presidential election in December."
"You don't have the guts to stage a coup, but you have the guts to suppress the workers! Our General Dickradeau is really a man who makes money on his knees!" Jérôme Bonaparte continued to ridicule Cavaignac, and then he spoke again Asked: "By the way, do you have any difficulties regarding publicity?"
"Hey...hey..." Pesini scratched his head in embarrassment and whispered: "It's not that there are no difficulties, but when we post small advertisements, we are always chased and intercepted by a group of people, so that every time the gangsters are Princess Mathilde must rescue her if she is captured!"
The corners of Jerome Bonaparte's mouth twitched slightly. According to Pesini's description, the relevant scenes had already appeared in his mind.
The propaganda of the Bonapartists has to rely on random small advertisements. Is this the progress of the times or the "degeneration" of the Bonapartists?
"By the way, this is a letter written by General Dufour!" Pesini handed the letter to Jérôme Bonaparte.
Jerome Bonaparte opened the envelope and looked at the contents.
The envelope stated that under his guarantee, Jérôme Bonaparte could return to France.
"Let's go! Go back to France!"
