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How do you ensure that the Governor General is apolitical? The monarchy is essentially a system for rearing apolitical figureheads. Any change towards a presid
by zarzavat 4y ago
How do you ensure that the Governor General is apolitical?
The monarchy is essentially a system for rearing apolitical figureheads. Any change towards a president would therefore be concrete change to how things are run and I’m not sure it would be a change for the better.
- dane-pgp 4y ago> How do you ensure that the Governor General is apolitical? How do you ensure the monarch is apolitical?[0] How do you ensure that the person effectively wielding the monarch's powers under the current system is apolitical? That isn't even a claimed feature of the current system, because those powers are wielded by the PM who is decidedly not apolitical. The only concrete change of introducing a Governor General would be that some powers are removed from the PM and given to someone with a democratic mandate to (rarely) use them. These powers would be just as political as they are now, except they would be properly shared between two people, providing a separation of powers that is common outside of autocracies. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen's_consent#Vetting_of_bills_under_consent_procedure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen's_consent#Vetting_of_bil...