User blog comment:Spritydove/Deeper Thought into the Civil War/@comment-24.217.230.13-20120620190625/@comment-80.216.219.47-20120701003945

It is nothing like a elected leader getting elected after another elected leader's term is up in a system of election.

It is two different Empires, not least because of the mede's being random warlords who blackmailed their way to power by seizing the capitol and threatening to sack it.