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they aren't elected

What do you mean?

I think they mean whoever is put into these companies to ensure compliance is just hired for the role, and isn't from some set of directly elected people.

This distinction between "elected", "appointed", etc.. people comes up pretty often in criticism of the EU and its institutions.

By that standard, the president of the US isn't elected either.

This is different still. It's more like how the US president's cabinet is unelected. I was referring mainly to the European Commission, and a common criticism I hear about it.

The electoral collage does follow a process that is election, even if there's one (or more) layer of abstraction between that and initial ballots.

Not that I share GPs opinion, but the US president really isn’t elected by the people. The winner takes it all is a strategy suitable for the 1700‘s, but not today. It may be what it is, but it certainly isn’t democratic.

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