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Will MBS remain as Crown Prince?
Depends what Erdogan has to say in his speech tomorrow.......imo.
I don't think that's going to be the deciding factor. Rather, it's whether the US and other nations create enough pressure to enable his domestic opponents of things like letting women drive, trying to modernize the economy, etc., And whether they, in turn, can put enough pressure on the King.Depends what Erdogan has to say in his speech tomorrow.......imo.
I don't think that's going to be the deciding factor. Rather, it's whether the US and other nations create enough pressure to enable his domestic opponents of things like letting women drive, trying to modernize the economy, etc., And whether they, in turn, can put enough pressure on the King.
Red:
I agree with that assertion. I'm not certain what, if anything, will alter the decision that made MBS the crown prince, but Erdogan's speech featurely very, very low on any list of "deciding factors" I might posit.
Blue:
Does the King even know what's been going on, let alone heard tell of his son's potential role in it? The state has admitted the man has "pre-dementia." Now unless SA is incredibly honest and forthcoming about such things -- and I heartily doubt it is -- that depiction of the King's mental status is a gross understatement and more likely a flat out mischaracterization.
One must consider matters of succession in a theocratic absolute monarchy from the standpoint of monarchy, not from the standpoint of democracy overlaid onto a monarchy as may be somewhat apt were SA a constitutional monarchy of some stripe. To wit, SA doesn't even have a constitution or well defined body of laws, other perhaps than Islamic Law. It just has the King and his appointees. What the king says goes, and whether it goes has nothing to do with precedent or any other notions of equitable and rationally arbitered jurisprudence.