1699 Drak-Modani attempted coup d'état

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In the first days of 1699 AN, a coalition of hardline Committee for United Modani Solidarity members, military leaders, and business magnates launched a failed attempt to take control of the Bovic Draconian State in Modan. In a public statement, they indicated that they were motivated by an unwavering commitment to the Draconian Supremacy Movement and the need to defend it against corruption in the "highest levels of the government" and from foreign threats.

2 Novaber

On the morning of 2.I, during his preparations for the opening of debate in The Fury on legislation that would begin the process of liberalizing the state, Kamil Gavrilov received a summons for the Co-Chancellors to appear before the Co-Monarchs at the Royal Palace to discuss the very same bill. Expecting that he would need to justify this radical decision or face dismissal, Gavrilov put out a call for those members of his cabinet in-office to accompany him, so that each may present benefits from their sphere of responsibility.

At 11:13, this impromptu meeting was interrupted by troops in the 14th Grenadier Regiment. Once Gavrilov was taked into custody, the order was given to proceed with seizing control of the Fury's legislative office building, preventing representatives from attempting to flee.

At 14:00, the Speaker of the Fury promptly opened the plenary session, with all members of the hardline faction present and the minimum sufficient number of the reform faction escorted and under guard by the 14th Grenadiers as necessary to meet quorum. Attempts by the reform faction to declare the session as out of order went unheard. The hardline faction moved to suspend the agenda and submitted emergency legislation to create an emergency governing committee to replace the present government, named the State Committee to Review Ongoing Threats and Urgent Matters. This new committee, consisting of middle and high-ranking party, government, and military officials, was then granted emergency legislative authority, the power to suspend The Fury, and to transfer prisoners to a new criminal court under the committee's supervision.