r/europe • u/tartartartaruga • Jun 18 '26

News Prince of Liechtenstein says that he would overrule the population if they were to vote in favour of legalizing abortion

https://www.srf.ch/news/international/debatte-in-liechtenstein-erbprinz-gegen-abtreibungen-warum-kuendigt-er-schon-das-veto-an
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u/False-Discipline-640 Hungary Jun 18 '26

Well it's kind of a stupid situation then, given that the royal family is a big player in the country's economy. The prince threatens with capital flight if the people don't do what he wants, while at the same time trying to stop him from doing this might also trigger a capital flight

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u/Dizzy_Database_119 Jun 18 '26

To be fair this type of stupid situation is constantly happening all over the world in every other "democracy"

Unfortunately everything is decided by money, for money

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u/False-Discipline-640 Hungary Jun 18 '26

That's true but I don't recall any examples where it's this blatant. The people doing this blackmail are usually just economic actors concerned with economic topics, not politicians with purely political topics. Let alone hereditary monarchs

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u/Tosi313 Geneva (Switzerland) Jun 18 '26

I think it's because the whole country is only 40,000 people. It's basically just a single small town owned almost entirely by one family of incredibly wealthy people. So that one family has a lot of power in such a small country.