Long-serving leaders and the New Republic's short institutional life

Is the New Republic meaningfully republican when its leaders hold power for so long?

The panel doubts it, pointing to prolonged personal rule and the repeated replacement of its governing institutions in Star Wars Legends.

A follow-up questions how republican the New Republic is when its leading figures remain in office for very long periods. Dragon adds that its institutions repeatedly collapse or change form in the Legends chronology. The New Republic Senate is described as lasting 23 years before replacement by the Galactic Alliance Senate, with a later return to imperial government. The criticism concerns the durability and concentration of power within the fictional system, rather than a comparison of real governments.