Sidious used the crisis to manipulate the then–Queen of the Naboo, Padmé Amidala, into calling a Vote of No Confidence against sitting Chancellor Finis Valorum. For his rise to power, he orchestrated an invasion on his own homeworld Naboo made by the Trade Federation in order to create a leadership crisis in the Senate.

In 32 BBY, Senator Sheev Palpatine, secretly the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, privately lamented the declining state of the Senate, noting that the Republic was 'not what it once was'. In the last decades of its existence, the Republic Senate became mired in bureaucracy, rendering it woefully ineffectual as a governing body, and a peacekeeping organization powered by the Force known as the Jedi swore to defend it from its enemies, such as a war bringing organization powered by the dark side of the Force known as the Sith. For at least a thousand years, the dominant governing body of the galaxy was the unicameral and democratic Galactic Republic, led by an elected Supreme Chancellor.

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