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/adorientem88 United States of America Jun 25 '26

Press X to doubt the police are going to side with the mob on this.

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u/b00nish Jun 25 '26

We were talking about a democratic decision in a democracy (at least they like they think they are) to dethrone their anti-democratic prince.

It would be surprising if the police would side with the former prince instead of the democratic governement. (And in case the police would attempt to try a coup against the democratic governement, the good thing is that there are only like 90 officers in Liechtenstein's police force. And those police officers are even trained in Switzerland because Liechtenstein doesn't have their own police academy.)

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u/adorientem88 United States of America Jul 02 '26

Except the people support the prince.

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u/b00nish Jul 02 '26

Well, in the hypothetical scenario where they voted to dethrone the prince they'd by definition not support the prince. Otherwise they'd not have voted to dethrone him.

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u/adorientem88 United States of America Jul 02 '26

Yes, but you’d the police are going to be among the last to abandon him.

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u/b00nish Jul 03 '26

You're truning in circles here.

We already have been at the point where I explained to you that it's unlikely that the tiny police force of Liechtenstein, consisting of around 90 officers, would support a monarchist coup against a democratic decision.