Caius Fabius Mutinensis, who is just close the Comitium, replies to Palus while he is escorted to his domus...

Oh yes I well remember what Appius Claudius did! Poor Virginia killed by the father to save her honour! Look (indicating the corner of Curia Hostilia close to the Argiletum), her sacellum is still there.
"Te Appi, tuumque caput sanguine hoc consecro." (By this blood, Appius, I devote thy head to the infernal gods.)
Really Palus, you want trigger a class struggle like the one of that time?
No, I'm sure you not.

But I'm wondering why you are so hardly opposing and edict that will grant you more power!
It do not limit your veto power. Once you'll be elected you'll be able to veto a veto, hence your power will be stronger.
How many times I heard someone complain since a tribunus raised his veto from a proposal. With the approval of the edict, you'll have the power to prevent this happens again.
Or do you think you and your colleagues would make a bad use of the new power the edict grants you?
Maybe are you thinking to what an extremist like that Oppius would do with this power? Fortunely very few plebeians voted for him until now! Do you see how wise Quirites are?

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OOC - Actually the edict is giving to tribuni plebis the power to veto other tribuni, it is not limiting tribuni powers.
If I'm not in wrong, this happened many times in Roma.
And still reading Livius (V, 3) about tribuni plebis:
Utrum enim defenditis an impugnatis plemem? Utrum militantium adversarii estis an causam agitis? Nisi forte hoc dicitis: "Quidquid patres faciunt displicet, sive illud pro plebe sive contra plebem est."
Are you defending or attacking the plebs? Are you trying to injure the men on service or are you pleading their cause? Or perhaps this is what you are saying: "Whatever the senate does, whether in the interest of the plebs or against them, we object to."

For me no officer is currently in charge. Anyone has put back his office to the people that is voting for the new officers.
I agree our elections procedure is not historical, but it is a good aproximation.

PS - For those who did not read the story of Appius Claudius and Virginia, this link leads to the english translation:

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0026&layout=&loc=3.44