What’s the point of electing a ruler from your family in republics?

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The Havoc

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It costs Republican tradition and the ruler has always less monarch points than the burocratic, militar or admin candidate. Am I missing something?
 

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They get -2 to all their skills when generated. So sometimes you get one that is actually better than the other choices. But the main draw used to be that they were always 30 years old. That got removed sometime ago I think. So now it's not that good anymore.

With the Signoria republic however, they don't get -2 to all their stats so they could be real good sometimes.