Would you like your country to restore the monarchy?

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shifaci@reddit

If I am going to be the monarch then sure

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Chemical-Control-693@reddit

So many people here saying "prefer a republic" while most of the balkan "republics" would function no different if there was a monarch in charge LMAO.

I'd like monarchy for sure but not the way it used to be for sure, and not a monarch with no power, just rich like UK. I'd like the monarch to have some legislative power, but it would need to be balanced with an elected prime minister (grand vizier in my case) and an assembly.

The monarch would be trained from a young age to be a nation leader, allowing for actual competence. And the grand vizier would be elected amongst either the assembly or a popular vote.

A constitution would need to state the limits of the monarch's, assembly's and the prime minister's legislative powers. I believe if everyone is designed to need one another's cooperation while having an emergency red button written somewhere in the Constitution, I think it could work out. (Or nothing changes. Can't get worse than the situation atm.)

I'd like a monarch because it's like an old tradition and even if the Monarch has no power, the monarch is the face of the country, the monarchy in UK nowadays just help with public support and morale of the general public.

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fituica@reddit

Not without Michael. Monarchy in Romania forever died with him.

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misterwrit3r@reddit

RIP King...

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bluecoldwhiskey@reddit

Absolutely not.Most pro-monarchs want it because they see some western monarchies and feel kinda jealous.The rest , an absolute majority of anti-monarchs ,rejects monarchy because subconciously we associate it with disastrous periods.That does not mean that the members of our ex-royal family are bad people or have had bad intentions for the country.I actually have sympathy for them as a people.They seem very civilised and nice people so far.But kingship has been an anathema for the Modern Greek state since its foundation.

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Outrageous_Trade_303@reddit

In two conditions:

1) Turkey restores monarchy as well

2) There's an arrange marriage between members of the two royal (my ass) families.

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pianistee@reddit

At the end, both nations can speak and write Greek, an independent branch in the Indo-European language family, sharing a similar concept of Grammar with German, French, English, Persian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, Italian etc., and Turkish, an agglutinative language which is now considered to be a part of Turkic family, having no similarities with IE languages whatsoever and grammatically functioning the same way with the languages such as Japanese, Hungarian, Korean, Mongolian, Finnish etc. Imagine how easy it would have been for these people to learn a new language. A polyglot's wet dream tbh.

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MegasKeratas@reddit

There's an arrange marriage between members of the two royal (my ass) families.

Why?

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Outrageous_Trade_303@reddit

Because in that case Greece and Turkey will become one family

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Paradoxius@reddit

Here's the plan:

Restore the Greek and Turkish monarchies
Royal marriage to join the families
Greco-Turkish personal union by the successor to both monarchs
Ottoman Empire restored
Re-abolish the monarchy
What to name the new republic? Well, there's one place-name that was historically used for the region currently comprising Greece and Turkey, which both Greeks and Turks historically used some form of as endonyms, thus
Roman Republic restored

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Outrageous_Trade_303@reddit

Roman Republic restored

Yeah! That's the plan! Hope Romanians don't have a naming issue, but in any case we can call it East Roman Republic :)

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MegasKeratas@reddit

Harems existed and look where they got us.

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blitzdisease@reddit

Why monarchy? So we have people that are above the normal population? Noo

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RandomRavenboi@reddit

Acting like the politicians of today aren't above the normal population.

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blitzdisease@reddit

They're removable, by vote

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RandomRavenboi@reddit

As are monarchs. The parliament can choose to remove them if they're corrupt.

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InfantryGamerBF42@reddit

That is not logic of monarchy for like last 200+ years.

Major advantage of monarchy today comes down to it being in same time relatively stable (bcs you have one less political player in game) while being increadeble adaptive to local needs and conditions.

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blitzdisease@reddit

what if they're not adaptive to local needs? What if they resist change of policies? There can be a lack of accountability. Very hard to throw them over and when you do that you have no guarantees that the next one's will be better.

Today we have China, they maybe can be called a modern monarchy.

There's a lot that can go wrong and history taught us a lot. But I do see how today keeping stable people for long it can benefit a country greatly, until that person dies...

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InfantryGamerBF42@reddit

what if they're not adaptive to local needs? What if they resist change of policies?

Monarchy gets removed. That is what makes it work. Royal family and in general monarchist moverment has constant incentive to adapt and compromise so they can stay as head of state. On other hand, there existance offers stability to complete system and enables head of state (aka king) to actually serve uniting role.

There can be a lack of accountability.

Similar applies like in above point. If they are not accountabele, monarchy will collapse. On top of that, it helps that monarch does not play any major political role.

Today we have China, they maybe can be called a modern monarchy.

Would not go that way. They are totalitarian state.

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roatt@reddit

fuck yeah

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OsarmaBeanLatin@reddit

Only if Michael was still alive. I don't trust his successors

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BlueShibe@reddit

Idk, our prince is crypto bitcoin activist and that gives me mixed feelings

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Suitable-Decision-26@reddit

Oh, fuck no.

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RandomRavenboi@reddit

As long as the Monarch is constitutional and keeps Edi Rama in check, yes. Our so called "President" is absolutely useless & irrelevant anyway.

Rofl, most people can't even name our "President". (Bajram Begaj is what he's called if anyone's interested.)

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MegasKeratas@reddit

We have a head of state which is more or less the same thing.

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ManOfAksai@reddit

Ceremonial kings are good as a political balance, I mean look at the US right now. They're ruled by various political families and dynasties.

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Diogenika@reddit

The so called Romanian monarchy proved that Germans can steal just as much as Romanians. It was confirmed by our current President as well.

So no, we do not need that kind of competition.

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Opposite-Memory1206@reddit

Well too late now. There was a chance for democracy under King Petar I and then the Austro-Hungarians ruined it two weeks after the consitution was made and that was supposed to be a liberal one for its time too from what I understood. And now we're the ones who are backwards, amazing.

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If the king still lived I still wouldn't count on it.