Diet Speaker: The scribes have now integrated the Charter Amendments into our Charter. [OOC: influence in the playlist has also been updated].

There has been some debate both inside this Diet and outside about possible contradictions in the Charter Amendments and Edicts passed. One concerns the succession; the other, the voting powers of the King of Outremer.

On the succession, Electors are doubtless aware of the poll currently underway as required by Charter Amendment 11.1. If one quarter of the total vote of the Diet agrees that a Council should be formed to decide the succession, then it will be formed and will select the next Chancellor.

Once that process as laid out under CA 11.1 has been resolved - with or without the establishment of a Council - we must follow Edict 11.9. This requires that all the Dukes unaminously agree that the outcome - whatever it is - is satisfactory. If they do not, then there will be a public vote to determine succession.

On the voting powers of the King of Outremer, Charter Amendments 11.3 and 11.4 have introduced an ambiguity in the Charter capable of various interpretations. At the next Diet, it will fall to the Kaiser to adjudicate whether the King of Outremer has three votes or six.