Ao is the prime minister in any country that adopts parliamentarism.
I am still to see as many people getting riled up about how those countries are not democratic.
I am still to see as many people getting riled up about how those countries are not democratic.
From what I remember the head of the european commission was picked from a group of people that weren't even up for election after the official candidates that were paraded around during an EU wide election where dismissed.
Nobody really knows or cares who is going to be appointed to the commission since domestic issues always completely over shadow it.
Are you really trying to imply that voters don't know who the fuck their heads of government are?
I mean, this is a rhetorical question. I don't really expect people who keep repeating misinformation about EU to be arguing in good faith.
It's a bit like with replacing senators in the US with state governors (except actually worse since US is way more centralized and local and federal parties are much more aligned).
If voters actually voted for council representatives directly they could actually influence it in meaningful ways. Now e.g. in Germany a CDU voter won't suddenly switch to AFD or Greens just because they prefer their stance on Chat Control (or whatever else).
The fact that the head of state is on EU council sort of sucks, because when I vote on national elections people are looking at internal issues, and EU policy is more of an afterthought.
But that doesn't align with morons claiming that those are "unelected officials" or that the EU is somehow undemocratic.