Posted by Eleonore
on 21/10/2009, 17:07:57, in reply to "Re: Swedish Model"
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Henri, imagine a scenario like this: the present Second and First Chamber will vote for a change in the Constitution. In a year there will be an election for the Second Chamber.
After the election, the Second Chamber will vote again. After long debates of course, it is the Dutch parliament after all. The Second Chamber agrees. Then we wait until the First Chamber is re-elected, this will be in 2011. After the Representatives of the provinces have chosen the First Chamber, the First Chamber will decide upon it.
The law can state clearly in one of the articles that the law will only come into effect on the day that the present monarch, Queen Beatrix, will abdicate and her heir will ascend the throne.
The Queen has to sign the law and the moment the Prince of Oranje becomes King, he will be a King without any political role.
PS Believe me, it can be done, I wrote a paper about it for my class Constitutional Law a couple of years ago (2007 it was) about this scenario. I got a 8,5 for the paper from a well-known specialist in Constitutional Law. He wrote one remark on the front sheet next to my grade: "I know one person who will dread this scenario".
--Previous Message--
: This can not happen. The Statute of the
: Kingdom and the Constitution needs to be
: changed. When both Acts have succesfully
: completed the -long and complicated- proces,
: it will become in force when the King has
: ordered its execution by signing the
: document.
:
: The new Constitution and the new Statute can
: not wait until there is a new King.
:
: Besides that, the expectation is that the
: Queen will abdicate in a foreseeable future.
: The changing of the Statute and the
: Constitution is a long process: it requires
: a qualified majority in the present
: States-General and it requires a majority in
: a newly elected States-General which means
: general elections ánd provincial elections
: since the Senate is elected by the
: provinces.
:
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