Editing Monarchy of Belgium (section)

=== Leopold III and Baudouin ===
Louis Wodon (the {{lang|fr|[[chief of staff|chef de cabinet]]}} of Leopold III from 1934 to 1940), thought the King's oath to the Constitution implied a royal position "over and above the Constitution". He compared the King to a father, the head of a family: "Regarding the moral mission of the king, it is permissible to point to a certain analogy between his role and that of a father, or more generally, of parents in a family. The family is, of course, a legal institution as is the state. But what would a family be where everything was limited among those who compose it to simply legal relationships? In a family when one considers only legal relationships one comes very close to a breakdown in the moral ties founded on reciprocal affection without which a family would be like any other fragile association"<ref>Arango, p. 31.</ref> According to Arango, [[Leopold III of Belgium]] shared these views about the Belgian monarchy.

In 1991, towards the end of the reign of [[Baudouin of Belgium|Baudouin]], Senator Yves de Wasseige, a former member of the [[Belgian Constitutional Court]], cited four points at which the Belgian Constitution lacks democracy:<ref>{{lang|fr|Yves de Wasseige, ''Le roi, la loi la liberté: inconciliables en démocratie?''|italic=unset}} in {{lang|fr|''Les faces cachées de la monarchie belge'', TOUDI (n° 5/Contradictions (n° 65/66)|italic=unset}} 1991, {{ISBN|2-87090-010-4}}</ref>
# the King chooses the ministers,
# the King is able to influence the ministers when he speaks with them about bills, projects and nominations,
# the King promulgates bills, and,
# the King must agree to any change of the Constitution