our presidents always pull this bullshit i am done fuck this country
Isn’t there a limit to his veto power?
50 years late and counting. I can’t imagine how many people have had to go through an unnecessarily cruel end phase in their life because of this bullshit. And perhaps some are rotting in prison for helping a suffering patient with their dying wish… Terrible.
A single person vetoing a decision with the only justification being his obsolete views is definitely not what democracy is all about…. quite the opposite.
When Belgium voted to pass abortion, then-king Baudouin, a fervent Catholic, refused to sign the law. He had to, that was his job, but he refused and abortion wouldn’t be legal if he didn’t.
The council of ministers declared the king unfit for duty for a weekend, voted the law in their capacity of de jure regent (capacity granted by the constitution), and abortion became legal. Baudouin became king again right after.
We take a lot of shit for having royals, and how these are ‘powerful,’ unelected rulers. But these examples, presidents vetoing laws, is – in my opinion – such fucking bullshit. Between a powerless royal and a career politician turned president with veto rights I’ll take the royal every time.
For those of you criticizing him, the proponents of the law, which are patients or their relatives wanted a **clear and precise law** that stated the **exact conditions and diseases** which would grant the right for euthanasia, and the subsequent practice without crime.
This is the **second time the Parliament makes a swampy law** practically forcing the President to vetoe it.
Now, do you think the bunch of lawyers and/or their puppets sitting in Parliament are dumb enough not to reach an agreement on a simple, transparent, concise and effective law?!?!?
Of course not, those idiots are playing with everyone’s time and money in future cases concerning the laws they pass to allow legal battles in which they are the ones making money of.
Portuguese here: it’s not because of his opinion he thinks the law is badly written.
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our presidents always pull this bullshit i am done fuck this country
Isn’t there a limit to his veto power?
50 years late and counting. I can’t imagine how many people have had to go through an unnecessarily cruel end phase in their life because of this bullshit. And perhaps some are rotting in prison for helping a suffering patient with their dying wish… Terrible.
A single person vetoing a decision with the only justification being his obsolete views is definitely not what democracy is all about…. quite the opposite.
When Belgium voted to pass abortion, then-king Baudouin, a fervent Catholic, refused to sign the law. He had to, that was his job, but he refused and abortion wouldn’t be legal if he didn’t.
The council of ministers declared the king unfit for duty for a weekend, voted the law in their capacity of de jure regent (capacity granted by the constitution), and abortion became legal. Baudouin became king again right after.
We take a lot of shit for having royals, and how these are ‘powerful,’ unelected rulers. But these examples, presidents vetoing laws, is – in my opinion – such fucking bullshit. Between a powerless royal and a career politician turned president with veto rights I’ll take the royal every time.
More info on Baudouin and abortion here, for those interested: https://brussels-express.eu/fun-fact-belgium-36-hours-without-king/
For those of you criticizing him, the proponents of the law, which are patients or their relatives wanted a **clear and precise law** that stated the **exact conditions and diseases** which would grant the right for euthanasia, and the subsequent practice without crime.
This is the **second time the Parliament makes a swampy law** practically forcing the President to vetoe it.
Now, do you think the bunch of lawyers and/or their puppets sitting in Parliament are dumb enough not to reach an agreement on a simple, transparent, concise and effective law?!?!?
Of course not, those idiots are playing with everyone’s time and money in future cases concerning the laws they pass to allow legal battles in which they are the ones making money of.
Portuguese here: it’s not because of his opinion he thinks the law is badly written.