It makes Spez the King, that is obvious. The landed gentry were trying to lead a popular rebellion against the King, so the King reminded the commoners that t

It makes Spez the King, that is obvious. The landed gentry were trying to lead a popular rebellion against the King, so the King reminded the commoners that the landed gentry are not their democratic representatives. This doesn't mean the King is suggesting himself to be democratic, of course he isn't and he wouldn't agree to an election for himself. But since the mods claim to be representatives of the commoners in a popular uprising, they framed themselves as democratically legitimate and in doing so, set themselves up to be threatened with elections they know they wouldn't win.