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> it's impossible no to have a 'peaceful transition of power' when one of the parties has kicked the bucket. I don't think [this is] how power works, specially
by eternalban 4y ago
> it's impossible no to have a 'peaceful transition of power' when one of the parties has kicked the bucket.
I don't think [this is] how power works, specially in a monarchy. Peaceful transition means the power base that has given fealty to Mr. X is now accepting Mr. Y. That is the 'transition'.
- seydor 4y agoSo they can swear allegiance to a dead person?
- eternalban 4y agoThat's funny. No. They can put their support behind another contender than Mr. Y (and English history has it's share of examples of crisis of succession, btw). In that case different factions that actually hold power get to duke it out to see whose candidate gets to be the new monarch/overlord/cesar/president. That is typically not peaceful, certainly not at the political level (think Tower of London) and may even involve actual guns and civil wars.