Referendum and Monarchy

Authors

  • IGNACIO TORRES MURO

Keywords:

Countersignature. Monarchy. Powers. Authority. Influence.

Abstract

The article asks itself what kind of Monarchy is the one that exists nowadays in the constitutional system of Spain, and how countersignature has contributed significantly to take away from the King a series of powers that, according to some authors, he still kept. After a review of the difficult relationship between a Monarch as Head of State and the democratic State, the author analyzes problems of history and comparative law, before going into the Spanish case. His study leads him to the conclusion that the King should dedicate himself mainly to exert his symbolic and representative functions, and the influence that everybody acknowledges him, in order to reassure the survival of the Crown, and because this is the solution more accordingly with the institutional design of the Spanish Constitution.

Published

2009-12-10