The Russian Orthodox Church announced the advantages of the monarchy over elected forms of government

The monarchy has many advantages over elected forms of government. This was stated by the head of the Synodal Department of External Church Relations by Metropolitan Hilarion in the program "Church and Peace" on the Russia-24 television channel, Interfax reports .

According to the Metropolitan, a person who is anointing to the kingdom receives not just a mandate from voters for a reign for a certain period of time, but "a sanction from God through the Church for his rule, and it is lifelong until he transfers power to his heir - this is, of course, that form of government that has positively proven itself and which has many advantages compared to any elected forms of government."

“Inside our church there are people, there are groups of people who advocate the restoration of the monarchy, and I think that if our society will someday be matured to discuss this issue, the church in such a discussion will take an active part,” Ilarion said, commenting on the statements of the Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia II about the possibility of restoring the monarchy in this country.

At the same time, the Metropolitan emphasized that the Russian Orthodox Church takes a neutral position in relation to any form of government chosen by people. "The church is loyal to all power until the authorities begin to call for actions that go against Christian morality," Illarion noted.

On March 15, the head of the Crimean occupation administration, Sergei Aksyonov, said that in Russia it was necessary to restore the monarchy . “When there is no unity of mind, collective irresponsibility comes,” said Aksyonov. “Therefore, when the country has external challenges, the outwards of external resistance, it is necessary to take more stringent measures in this part. Today, in my opinion, Russia needs monarchy.”

“I believe that such democracy is to us - in the form in which it is presented by the Western media - is not needed,” the official said. “We have our own traditional Orthodox values, spirituality. Democracy should be up to certain, normal limits.” What leads to understanding of democracy as permissiveness, added Aksenov, now you can see the example of Ukraine.

Meanwhile, the State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin criticized the idea of ​​Aksenov. “We live in a free country. Therefore, everyone can express a variety of points of view. But it is probably necessary to look into the future, and not in the past,” said Volodin.