The New Republic Provisional Council, colloquially known as the Rebel Alliance Senate, was the body of signatories of the Declaration of a New Republic who served as the government of the fledgling New Republic prior to the formation of the New Republic Senate. The Council was formed in 4.5 ABY from the Alliance Cabinet in a Constitutional Convention. Viewed as the government that had lost Coruscant, the Provisional Council was dissolved after the conclusion of Operation Shadow Hand and replaced by a new system with a more powerful leader.