No government of significant size can function with full direct democracy, decisions made by the elected members of government have to be delegated and turned i

No government of significant size can function with full direct democracy, decisions made by the elected members of government have to be delegated and turned into workable solutions by someone. Should all these bureaucrats be elected? As for the the Commission President, the EU Parliament gained a veto over this appointment. Elected representatives have influence over the position, which is a bureaucratic one. Using an example of a country that decided the EU was "not democratic" enough and actually left. In the UK people find out about who has power behind the scenes when a scandal makes it to the newspapers. Aside from that the powerful Civil Servants that ultimately decide how policies are put into practice are hidden away. There is very little scrutiny of the Civil Service by Parliament as a whole, the party in government simply shuffles people around if internal conflicts get too heated.