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The UK has exactly the same opacity. People vote for parties, and the winning party can replace its leader at any time. Voters have exactly zero input into who

• jariel 6y ago
  This is not true, and the most recent election in the UK is strong evidence of this. UK voters know which parties they are voting for, their platforms, and their leaders, turnout is high, and there is general awareness of the issues. In mostly the same way in other 'good' EU nations. Parliament can fall if there's a lack of confidence in leadership, particularly on an important issue, in which case, there's an election. This happen with Johnson in the UK wherein there was an 'issue election' called and people were well aware of the issues. This was actually a pretty strong and democratic process: Johnson had not been elected, so he went to the polls and people had material, meaningful input. In proportional representation systems, leaders can change without elections as well (see: Sweden, Finland etc.) and it's not exactly perfect but it works well enough. The 'good' European nations have pretty good democracy at the national level. It's at the EU level that it's all Byzantine. Pun intended.