For a moment, pure rage overcomes Kysely's features as he is called a Hungarian, but he manages to compose himself and continue speaking.
Mr. von Treidich, it seems, has been bamboozled. He is speaking out to agree with the intention of the proposal. It is not an intention with which I agree, but I can see why some might. However, he does not seem to have read the proposal at all. If he had, he would realize that the proposal does nothing, nothing at all, to divide powers or to weaken the presidency. How does it? It gives the prime minister no meaningful powers whatsoever that the president does not also have, it simply clutters up the government with an unnecessary office. I challenge Mr. von Treidich or any other erroneous supporters of the proposal to prove otherwise.
After this point, Mr. von Treidich simply falls into fallacies.
He completely misunderstands the "problems of monarchy" that he claims a presidential system would bring. The problem of monarchy is that the monarch is not democratically elected, and that he is set above his fellow citizens by law. A President would simply be the chief executive and not a sovereign. And, of course, the President would be democratically elected. Therefore, his argument that the President is "distant" or in any way a less legitimate representative of the people is utter drivel. And, even if it were not, since Mr. von Treidich has not read the proposal he ignores the fact that it would have the prime minister be appointed by the President, which would necessarily make him even more distant from the Danubian people than the President is.
Like so many advocates of the parliamentary system who warn that the presidential system must necessarily lead to autocratic abuse of power, Mr. von Treidich completely ignores the fact that we have already had the presidential system for all of our existence and it has lead to no such thing. He warns of what will happen if we hypothetically adopt a system that we have already had for many years without any of that happening. There is nothing wrong with the presidential system and therefore no reason to fix it, unlike the many other ills in the Federation that would be much better uses of our time to address. And, even if that concern was legitimate, this proposal, again, does absolutely nothing to address it since the prime minister is appointed directly by the President and has no meaningful powers that he could possibly use to prevent anyone from doing anything, much less the President from abusing his power.
Not a word that has come out of Mr. von Treidich's mouth is correct, likely because he is too busy coming up with racist falsehoods to spew to actually read the proposal that he blindly, senselessly defends. I urge all of you to vote against the proposal. It has no merit.