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Why? They've had months to organize an election. National elections aren't actually hard to organize, they simply take forever in the modern age because most of the states that try to administer them are deeply dysfunctional.
Also, we're told in the update that a commanding majority of the new legislature - the one that presumably campaigned on union with the Republic - is in favor of annexation. I would, in fact, consider it somewhat of an insult to their agency as a polity to turn around to them and say "actually we think we know better than you do, run another election or whatever and we'll do it again." They had a free and fair election and in the course of that election they have requested annexation in good faith - why shouldn't we take that seriously?
Because Britain will find it concerning? We're about to bloodily dismember the Austrians, they're going to be Concerned with us no matter what we do in Bohemia. Because you fear the Czechs will be an oppressed minority? We've been running reforms for decades to ensure the autonomy and cultural independence of minorities like them under the Republic. The Second Republic is materially different from the empires that came before it, and we should rejoice at another peoples voting to join our revolutionary project.
