Ideologies / Constitutional Monarchist / Baudouin of Belgium
§ The minds · 1930–1993 · Belgium · King
Baudouin of Belgium
The king of conscience
Crown as moral steadier of a divided nation.
Economic+44
SocialistMarket
Governance+66
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social−50
TraditionalProgressive
The Belgian king who held a fractious, bilingual nation together as a scrupulous constitutional monarch, once briefly abdicating rather than sign a law against his conscience.
social
Devout Catholic traditionalist.
economic
Presided over a market welfare economy.
governance
Scrupulous constitutional monarch; once stepped aside over a law of conscience.
Notable for
- Held Belgium together
- Stepped aside over abortion law
- Model constitutional monarch
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