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Proposed by the European Council [1] = governors in US terms.

Accepted by the European Parliament = single chamber congress.

What part of this process is not democratic?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Council


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qcnguy01/04/2026

I asked why, not how. In any democracy that question is easy to answer. You can look at the candidates platform or poll the voters to find out why someone won. You can't answer the question I asked, because nobody knows why she got the job. The vote in the Europarl had a single candidate choice (her) and nobody else. Literally a rubber stamp.

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