Posted by Johan
on 14/10/2009, 14:49:16, in reply to "Re: privilège du blanc "
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In the 1990's i would have agreed with you, right now im not so sure. The Dutch politican spectrum is changing fast and so things that used to go very slow could no go much quicker. So far the Dutch have always been reluctant to change the constitution, but for politics the same rule applies as with investing in stocks and shares: results of the past are no garantee for the future.
--Previous Message--
: Of course the Dutch monarchy survives long
: enough. The great statesman Johan Rudolph
: Thorbecke (1798-1872) has -to beware the
: Constitution for too changing winds in the
: moods of time- built constructions to make
: it difficult to change the Constitution.
:
: It requieres at least 100 (of the 150) and
: 38 (of the 75) votes in respectively the
: Second Chamber and the Senate (First
: Chamber).
:
: Then the Constitution has again to be
: offered and consented by a newly elected
: Second Chamber and First Chamber. Since the
: coalition is not willing to abolish the
: monarchy, it needs to be an Initiative by
: one of the fractions from the opposition to
: initiate such a Bill. It needs to have a
: qualified majority in both Chambers and
: again a new majority in newly elected
: Chambers.
:
: D66 has tried to get a referendum, elected
: mayors or an elected Premier for 40 years.
: None of these were realised, let alone the
: abolition of the monarchy for a Republic of
: the Netherlands.
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