User:DimiTalen/Nonpartisan

A few notes on the political involvement of the King in Lovia.

There are no legal measures for how independent the ruling monarch should be. The only relevant passage is Article 1B.5.1 of the Constitution, which prohibits the monarch from participating (i.e. as a candidate) in elections to Congress. All citizens, including the monarch, enjoy the same rights under the Constitution.

Legally, the King would be allowed to:
 * declare his support of a movement or party;
 * join a movement or party;
 * lead a movement or party (but not in Congress);
 * be a member of the government and lead one of the Federal Departments, even as a member of a party;
 * renounce other movements or parties;
 * and all other things a citizen could do.

The current monarch, as have the previous kings and queens, has personally chosen not to participate in party politics. Party politics often makes it hard to build bridges between ideologies and people. Although it is impossible, and would be irresponsible too, to be impartial and thus not have an opinion, the King wishes to be more of a deal-maker than a proponent of a movement. Like other nonpartisans have done too, the King will embrace all good proposals that will enhance welfare, whether they come from a leftist or rightist background.

He cannot leave out all notions of ideology. Whoever believes the state should actively engage people and may interfere with the economy to guarantee the people's welfare, is associated with certain ideologies. And one must always have an idea of how welfare should be created and saved.

To be a responsible monarch, is to have a well-formed opinion of these matters, which should go together with a sense of compromise and the wish to bring Congress together in order to pass commonly accepted legislation.