DBWI: French Assassination Plot Succeeds

What if the French government's plot to assassinate future Austrian Emperor Rudolf I had succeeded? Who would run the government following Emperor Franz Joseph I stroke in 1916 and assume the throne the after his death the following year?

OOC: I realize that the French Plot is one of several theories as to how Rudolf died.
 
OOC: Is the POD in his lifetime before suicide or is the POD that he didn't commit any suicide in 1889?
 
OOC: Is the POD in his lifetime before suicide or is the POD that he didn't commit any suicide in 1889?​

It would appear that that the suicide of which you speak was actually a French assination plot and that it failed. It would also appear that we are living in 1917 or later and that Rudolf has succeeded Franz Joseph as Emperor of Austria & King of Hungary.
 
OOC: Is the POD in his lifetime before suicide or is the POD that he didn't commit any suicide in 1889?​
OOC: The PoD is that the suicide was actually an assassination attempt by the French Government to prevent Rudolf from informing his father of the plot to oust Franz Joseph and replace him with Rudolf. This is believed to have been the belief that the Emperor and much of the Imperial Family held, the idea was publicized largely by Empress Zita, based on what can only be called some interesting evidence.
 
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