Under what regime was democracy born?

Political regimes, democracy

And popular aspirations

The origins of democracy date back to ancient Greece.

And over the centuries, democratic ideals have evolved through the wars and revolutions that have shaken the Western world and under the banners of international treaties.

Thus from ancient Greece and Rome and from the medieval era to the Age of Enlightenment, passing from the British parliamentary regime to the French Revolution, democracy has come a long way before becoming what we experience it today.

People, whatever they may be, attach themselves to virtue and are grateful to their guides, their great men and their heroes. They are obliged to them for having united them, their cohesion defended and their homeland protected.

They are grateful to them for having founded their greatness, their power and their prestige and crystallized their demands.

And of all the great civilizations that the world has known, only monarchies have been able to fill this need, whether Egyptian, Islamic, Sumerian, Japanese, Mesopotamian, Greco-Roman, Celtic or Mayan, they still inspire today much admiration, prestige, grandeur, charm and mystery and they were all monarchies!

And it is the monarchy as a political system which produced, among others, ancient Greece, the Roman empire preserved for a thousand years more in the regenerated form of Byzantium, the civilization of the Incas, the Egyptian civilization, the Persian culture, the greatness of China, that of the Turks and the Ottoman Empire, modern Japan, founded Russia, Great Britain and France, fertilized the arts and letters, erected the most superb monuments in all latitudes and longitudes .

Any other political system claiming to be synonymous with democracy has neither created nor honored it since the first years of its establishment.

The monarchical populations who live under royalty now number more than half a billion citizens in the world.

In Europe, there are more than 220 million citizens subject to the 12 monarchies, including those of the 15 Commonwealth countries, appreciating their political system whose kings hold their positions from birth.

A centuries-old attachment based on the continuity of systems, which in Denmark lasted more than a millennium, the oldest monarchy in Europe, and a thousand years in England, Norway being the most recent kingdom established in 1905, in order to free itself of Sweden, to be recognized on a national scale and to emerge strengthened from the Second World War, thanks to King Haakon at the head of the resistance, and who tenaciously refused to capitulate to Germany.

The King of Denmark immortalized in the annals his daily outings on horseback through the streets of Copenhagen, occupied by the Nazis, in exemplary defiance and resistance.

The British royal family did not leave London for refuge elsewhere throughout the German Blitz.

The King of Spain had the same role as political stabilizer and protector of the new democracy born after the dictatorial regime of Franco, and built with the Spanish people a new democracy.

King Mohamed V of Morocco never laid down his arms when he continued the resistance and united the resistance, even during his forced exile.

A hero of liberation, he was also exceptional in his gentleness, in his high spirituality, in his love for his people and in his concern for the future of Morocco.

His immense qualities of heart and his faith in his people and in his homeland were unshakeable, his descendant Mohamed VI is today amply compared to his great father and father of the nation.

Leading figures of diplomacy, monarchs everywhere reflect the image of a united and responsible kingdom throughout the world, as they embody the major historical events of the country, above parties.

The king is always there to unite citizens and all social strata, he ensures the stability of the country on the international scene and safeguards its independence and unity, such is one of his major and emancipated roles.

In their historical journey and their social movement, people reach a stage of their human accomplishment or their frustration, such that they experience a vital and incessant need to identify with a providential man who can crystallize and embody their aspirations, their causes and their conditions, and who can personify the greatness of their nation, its measure and its dimension and thus provide a response to their ambitions.

The monarchy has been assiduously in the history of peoples, this power which embodies and concretizes their vigor, their resistance and their unanimity.