Re:Antigua and Barbuda may vote to remove King Charles III a...
by kergonath on Monday September 12, 2022 @11:19AM
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Yeah. Choosing your head of state should be opt-in, rather than opt-out at best (or, more realistically, no opt at all).
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Re:Antigua and Barbuda may vote to remove King Charles III a...
by bluepizza on Monday September 12, 2022 @12:25PM
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Also, since monarchs have to be politically neutral, which is another absurdity on top of an absurd situation, a monarchy lacks the powers that a President has in parliamentary republics, of dissolving the parliament and calling elections.
The UK has been stuck in crisis mode more than once, because the Queen couldn’t say “fuck it, let’s have some elections because the current state of affairs is damaging the country”.
Re:Antigua and Barbuda may vote to remove King Charles III a...
by throw0101c on Monday September 12, 2022 @01:18PM
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> […] a President has in parliamentary republics, of dissolving the parliament and calling elections.
This is a bug.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021–2022_Tunisian_political_c...
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Peruvian_self-coup_d%27ét...
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-coup
> The UK has been stuck in crisis mode more than once, because the Queen couldn’t say “fuck it, let’s have some elections because the current state of affairs is damaging the country”.
This is a feature. Let the politicians figure it out or go to the electorate and have them sort it out.
(I'm Canadian.)
Re:Antigua and Barbuda may vote to remove King Charles III a...
by fakedang on Monday September 12, 2022 @02:51PM
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No thanks. To take the contrary example, Kuwait is a constitutional monarchy by definition, almost taking the playbook of the English monarchy verbatim. Except that the monarch has the conditional right to dissolve the parliament for any "valid" reasons. Monarch hates the PM secretly? Monarch doesn't like a new law being signed into place? Monarch feels a bit whimsical? Find a pretext, dissolve the parliament, rule in absolute until the next elections, by which time he will have devised another method to dissolve the next government.