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Originally Posted by SMHarman
I think it does. The queen currently presides or queens (is that a verb) or rules over the country. She has the executive power to enact laws etc, this is delegated to the elected parliment.
If she is abolished then someone has to have the executive power to enact law, to be the ultimate arbiter of the country, to preside over the country.
I'm not fully aufait with global politics, but for example, France who ditched their monarchy have a President. I don't know if there are examples to the contrary.
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France and the USA have executive presidents who hold power in a far more real way than our monarchy does. Executive power might technically rest with the Queen but she does not really make policy or ask her legislature to allow her to do things. Those powers are delegated to such an extent that she might as well not exist. Our queen is more like the presidents of Ireland or Germany, who are figureheads, albeit elected.