--Previous Message-- Now, I'm not aguing that the King's granddaughter will be queen. The more likely scenario could seem to be a republic. Just arguing that the law from last year was unclearly worded - and that they make up the rules as they go along.
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: http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=103433
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: (12 March 2007)
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: "Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala
: Monday said that the nation was heading down
: the path of republic because of the
: king."
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: If the article is accurate, this stresses
: what has been argued on this board. That the
: King and the Crown Prince ought to step down
: in favour of the King's grandson.
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: Why not his granddaughter who is first in
: line to the throne according to the
: governments decision from last year?
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: Because she is a girl.
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: Yes. But the firstborn is heir - at least it
: was so last year.
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: No. The change in the law only applied to
: the children of a King. As is the case for
: the nomination of a female heir apparent in
: Thailand.
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: The grandaughter is not the daughter of the
: King, so the law does not apply to her.
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Why did they make such a law then? There is no doubt that the Crown Prince would probably never be king. And we agreed at the time that the wording of the law was a bit odd. In the European succession-tadition that children of a heir who does not succeed to the throne are considered as if their parent (to the heir) had acctually been king.
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