Why are there still monarchies if they are purely presentative? Why is particularly Spain keeping its monarchial system despite the big and shocking scandals and incidents which happened within the royal family and led to big and often unbeneficial changes in the system? Now, King Juan Carlos is stepping back from the throne at the age of 76 and leaves his son a – let’s say- broken country. Although the King is given near to no tool to influence the politics in Spain, he still has to play the very crucial role of the country’s representative figure.
One little example of this important position: 2012 – Carlos is hunting elephants during a Safari in Africa, while the economy in his country is lying shattered in pieces. Furthermore, rumors were spread saying the elephants weren’t killed appropriately. Oh well, it is needless to say that his reputation as the president of the Spanish WWF didn’t benefit from these rumors at all.
His son and heir Felipe (46) is now facing the complicated task to represent this desolate country. I really hope, that he succeeds in doing so. I hope that Spain will make the right political decisions and that this entire construct based on the representative monarchy will soon be abandoned. Well, at least father Juan managed to lead the country to a more democratic system in the year 1977.
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