The elections for the Chief Consul of the Year in RomeThe year was about to end and with it the offices of the consuls of Rome expired.
Caesar explained that he intended to compete for the position of Chief Consul of the Year, with the consequent granting of citizenship for the peoples of Gaul who had loyally helped him, he devised a strategy with his collaborators to obtain this end.
If this did not happen, the Gauls and his soldiers would have autonomously elected Caesar as their Consul in Romagna from 15 to 21 March, in place of the one elected in Rome on 31 December,88 a practice that began autonomously in Romagna with the election of Gaius Flaminius, about a century and a half earlier, who was celebrated as an alternative consul to that of Rome during the days of the spring equinox.
