Ok that is weird but ok. I like how they painted monarchy to orange as that is symbol of royal family.
excluding the 21% “unsure” is bullshit.
it’s still vastly for Monarchy, but not as one-sided:
* 21% unsure
* 23.7% for Republic
* 55.3% for Monarchy
Please note that monarchy here means constitutional monarchy where the monarch doesn’t have any power but he just cuts ribbons and we all get shitfaced in a orange lion suit on his birthday
I sincerely hope we will always remain a monarchy. The Netherlands would lose a lot of flavor if we would cut ties with the Oranje family; they have been with us since the start.
I am open to be your king
Honestly, with republics, i don’t get why there needs to be both the PM and the president. Usually one of them has amost no power. Why is there no country with just one of these seats? It just seems like useless spending of taxpayer money. Or maybe there are, but I’m not aware of them.
In Denmark it’s 75% for keeping the monarchy. I think us remaining monarchies in Europe need some serious scandals for the numbers to change.
I don’t get that, like at all. Why would you spend money so some privileged families cam live a life in luxury?
Why would you want a pour millions of euros to one useless bunch of people? I’ll never understand monarchists.
Monarchy
We should be an autonomous collective
They wasted 170 milion on putting thousands of tons of marble in their palice
That was revealed today
The monarchy is an leech to the taxpayer
Pretty similar to public opinion here, although our majority is a tad larger.
Being represented by an extremely privileged family with a dark history doesn’t make much sense in a democracy.
I think having a president instead of a king makes a lot of sense. I can only report that it works extraordinarily well in Germany.
Note that they usually poll this with an addition like ‘such as the US or France’ and never Germany or Switzerland. Other polls show significantly lower support for the monarchy, most of them pointing in the direction that a majority doesn’t want abolition straight away but rather phasing it out with the current king being the last and maintaining some of the traditions and holidays associated with the monarchy.
Once again proven that Reddit does not represent actual popular opinion. Reddit *despises* monarchies.
Thank you Atatürk we do not have this problem
As an American, I can’t relate at all to the concept of royalty by birth and can’t imagine all the citizens paying them just for being them. It was a quaint notion 300 years ago, but feels so out of synchronize with the modern world.
If the monarch is *your* head of state, it really doesn’t make a difference between being a Monarchy or a Republic, since both still end up with a largely ceremonial head of state.
On the other hand, if you’re, say, the Barbados and your head of state is in England, it makes sense that you’d want certain formalities designated to someone from your own country, such as the option to dissolve parliament, and so becoming a republic is a big distinction
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Roll out the guillotines, it’s been a while.
How has it changed over the years?
Ok that is weird but ok. I like how they painted monarchy to orange as that is symbol of royal family.
excluding the 21% “unsure” is bullshit.
it’s still vastly for Monarchy, but not as one-sided:
* 21% unsure
* 23.7% for Republic
* 55.3% for Monarchy
Please note that monarchy here means constitutional monarchy where the monarch doesn’t have any power but he just cuts ribbons and we all get shitfaced in a orange lion suit on his birthday
I sincerely hope we will always remain a monarchy. The Netherlands would lose a lot of flavor if we would cut ties with the Oranje family; they have been with us since the start.
I am open to be your king
Honestly, with republics, i don’t get why there needs to be both the PM and the president. Usually one of them has amost no power. Why is there no country with just one of these seats? It just seems like useless spending of taxpayer money. Or maybe there are, but I’m not aware of them.
In Denmark it’s 75% for keeping the monarchy. I think us remaining monarchies in Europe need some serious scandals for the numbers to change.
I don’t get that, like at all. Why would you spend money so some privileged families cam live a life in luxury?
Why would you want a pour millions of euros to one useless bunch of people? I’ll never understand monarchists.
Monarchy
We should be an autonomous collective
They wasted 170 milion on putting thousands of tons of marble in their palice
That was revealed today
The monarchy is an leech to the taxpayer
Pretty similar to public opinion here, although our majority is a tad larger.
Being represented by an extremely privileged family with a dark history doesn’t make much sense in a democracy.
I think having a president instead of a king makes a lot of sense. I can only report that it works extraordinarily well in Germany.
Note that they usually poll this with an addition like ‘such as the US or France’ and never Germany or Switzerland. Other polls show significantly lower support for the monarchy, most of them pointing in the direction that a majority doesn’t want abolition straight away but rather phasing it out with the current king being the last and maintaining some of the traditions and holidays associated with the monarchy.
Once again proven that Reddit does not represent actual popular opinion. Reddit *despises* monarchies.
Thank you Atatürk we do not have this problem
As an American, I can’t relate at all to the concept of royalty by birth and can’t imagine all the citizens paying them just for being them. It was a quaint notion 300 years ago, but feels so out of synchronize with the modern world.
If the monarch is *your* head of state, it really doesn’t make a difference between being a Monarchy or a Republic, since both still end up with a largely ceremonial head of state.
On the other hand, if you’re, say, the Barbados and your head of state is in England, it makes sense that you’d want certain formalities designated to someone from your own country, such as the option to dissolve parliament, and so becoming a republic is a big distinction