@jessecoynelson @Mummabear you seem to have completely missed my point. I don't care about the procedure. I don't care about the person. I'm saying that whoever is the figurehead of power in any particular time takes certain actions because they are driven by the political realities they exist within. They do what they do because they could not do anything else.
Also we don't talk about electing a person. We elect a party. The "appointed" person is largely irrelevant.