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Huntard
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Message 31 of 102 (657188)
03-26-2012 3:14 PM
Reply to: Message 27 by Dr Adequate
03-26-2012 2:27 PM


Re: Long live the queen
Dr Adequate writes:
There was something that came up in ... I forget ... Belgium, or the Netherlands ... the Queen of whichever country it was had some sort of conscientious objection to signing a bill about abortion, so it was seriously proposed that she could abdicate in favor of her son, who would sign it and then abdicate right back in favor of her. I don't know how the situation was eventually resolved.
That was actually the king of Belgium, Baudouin, or Boudewijn in Dutch. He felt he couldn't sign the bill regarding abortion, so for one day, he was declared unfit to reign. The bill got passed by the government (who, in absence of the king are head of state), and the next day he was reinstated.

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