> Ursula von der Leyen was not elected by EU citizens it's even worse than that prior to the election there was the usual stuff you'd expect: potential candid

> Ursula von der Leyen was not elected by EU citizens it's even worse than that prior to the election there was the usual stuff you'd expect: potential candidates begin interviewed by the press, television debates, where they would explain what they planned to do if they won, why their policy was the right one, etc then after the election all of those candidates were discarded and von der Leyen was appointed as commission president despite not being named prior or participating in the process of democratic scrutiny at all total farce