imagine having a MONARCHY in the year of our lord 2020, lmao
fucking netherlands, didn't even start with a king, keeps theirs
fucking belgium, king's grandda or whatever did genocide in the Congo, wtf
fucking Scandinavia wtf ur kings suck get rid of them it isn't 1320 anymore
fucking SPAIN my god ur king was put there by a fascist get a grip
and England, fuckssake, first ones to behead the fuckers, yet now the most attached to that dessicated corpse named Lizard or something, truly the most feebled people: getting shown up by puritan genociders 😑
Which countries do these monarchies actually have power? I'm getting tired of googling them all and pretending to understand a parliamentary government.
doesn't matter; the state pays to upkeep a buncha pompous goons i dont care if they can launch nukes or not
Direct political power? Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, and Monaco all still have monarchs with significant direct political power.
Indirect political power? Well, all of the monarchies are rich as shit so...
EDIT: Also the UK monarch literally removed an Australian Prime Minister (and dissolved the Aus Parliament) in 1975, and still has the power to do it again.
Their ceremonial roles also tend to give them a lot of access to powerful people, and a lot of prestige.
That was the governor-general, who afaik is only nominally under the control of the monarch. To all intents and purposes they are appointed by the prime minister and use their powers independently. I think that's how it works in all of the non-UK countries that have the British monarch as their head of state.
Anyway the current British royals only seem to be interested in using their influence for stupid shit like promoting homeopathy and interfering with random building projects (and protecting their own status and wealth of course).
Good edit. Everytime someone says the queen is just a figure head for our country I scream and scream about Whitlam until they leave me alone forever.
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Yeah, I understand that she's just a rubber stamp, but that's just a threat, you know? Also, the CIA influence is whack as fuck, and we know Charles had some idea about the dismissal (read coup) before it happened.
Sure indirect monetary power. Thanks for clarifying, i was curious about literal "i can make laws and change the course of the country" type power.
Don’t forget the Vatican!
Good point, forgot that it's technically an elective absolute monarchy...over like 500 people.
Hey now don’t sell il Papa short, he’s also the spiritual monarch of over a billion people!
And sure, the overwhelming majority of them just pick and choose whether they feel like listening to anything he says, but they still pay taxes to him so really it’s not much different from the other European royals.
English crown has direct rule over Northern Ireland. Its Parliament was suspended because it was something like ~50% Sinn Fien and they couldn't form a government.
No it doesn't.
They formed a government in January. The reason they didn't have one prior to that is because Sinn Féin pulled out of the power-sharing agreement with the DUP, mostly over the Cash for Ash scandal (which was as stupid as it sounds), and they failed to reach an agreement to restore it for a long time. Their system of government requires at least the two largest parties to form a coalition government - other parties can join it if they want to - and that has consistently been the DUP and Sinn Féin in recent years.
Also when the assembly and executive are suspended they're just ruled by the UK government in basically the same way that they rule over England. They aren't directly ruled by the monarch.