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. It wants the new king not to have any role in coalition negotiations to form a new government, not be head of the armed forces and not sign any laws[/B].
Wonder if Prince Charles downloaded a copy of this story and gave it to his mother with the phrase *Hint Hint* scribbled across the top.
And they may have a point given that coalition negotiations tend to be most of what the government does over there.
Constitutional Monarchy aren't they?
Constitutional Monarchy aren't they?
Indeed but the king presides over the negotiations deciding which parties will form the coalition that rules the country, and has been known to say 'no' to would be coalitions in the past.
Surely the person who does that should be least appointed on a meritocratic basis if not a democratic one?
Which they call themselves Democrats. Course Obama threw him a shout out.
They call themselves democrats, not Democrats.
Belgium is a mess, there are three official languages, 2 sets of governments and a federal government. The Flemish government has large issues with parties who want are fed up with the French Belgians.
The two provinces keep to their own policies for the most part. They hate each other and they have quite possibly the most inefficient federal government legislative wise I have ever seen. I've been to their parliament I'm going to say it's not exactly big and they wouldn't let me take pictures.
It really is a lot more complicated than that.
Heya AV. :2wave: Perhaps you can shed some light upon this then.
Belgium is a very complex federal structure with 3 (not 2) Communities, 3 Regions and 3 language areas. These overlap partially, but not completely. It is also a country without Belgian political parties, media, education systems, etc. as everything is split along linguistic and regional lines.
What did you think was meant by different policy, also it's not three regional factions since the German one is autonomous but Wallonia and Flanders battling with each other.
The German Community is as autonomous (slightly less actually) as the Flemish and french-speaking Community. As for the regions, there's three of those too (Flanders, Wallonia and Brussels). it really is much more complicated. That's why it's a dysfunctional country.
They have their own parliament and their own courts they are practically a separate country While the Flanders and Wallonia are united directly under the federal government other wise they like to decide for themselves. I've lived in Belgium I know how it works.
You are mistaken. It is true that the German speaking Community has its own Parliament and Government, but so do the Flemish Community/region; the French-speaking Community, the Walloon Region and the Brussels Capital region. None of them has its own courts. Actually the German-speaking Community has formally less constitutional autonomy than the Flemish and French-speaking Community, but this will change soon.
They have provincial parliaments but not has powerful as the autonomous German-speaking one. The German-speaking region has it's own systems whereas Flanders and Wallonia do not. I've been to that region and lived in Belgium albeit for a short time.
I'm sorry, but you are complete wrong on this. I actually live here and know the Belgian constitutional system inside out.
What do you think of the animosities between the Flemish and French speakers, and what solution would you propose?
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