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1. gizajob · 1789546655 · focus · HN ↗

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   1. phoronixrly · 1789547077 · focus · HN ↗

      You keep spreading this, but the eurocommssion president gets appointed by the European Council, which consists of democratically elected heads of state.

      She is no less democratically elected than the prime minister of a parliamentary republic... They get appointed by the democratically elected parliament.

      1. gizajob · 1789547150 · focus · HN ↗

         Her doublethink and doublespeak needs repeated illumination.

         She has never been part of any democratic process to put her in that role. In a parliamentary democracy the prime minister is an elected minister who leads his or her party. Von der leyen is a technocrat. “Demos” means “the people” en masse.

         1. cromka · 1789547445 · focus · HN ↗

            Sounds like you're moving goalposts here

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