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"Liberal democracy". Have you tried voting out a member of the EU commission?
by taylorius 1y ago
"Liberal democracy". Have you tried voting out a member of the EU commission?
- nickslaughter02 1y agoI would bet good money on that 90% of people from EU could not name a single member of the EU Commission.
- account42 1y agoI wouldn't bet on that. Zensursula is already a well known meme. Doesn't change the chance of her or anyone else in the commission facing any consequences.
- nickslaughter02 1y agoShe is the president of the Commission, overseeing its work. I'm not sure if she's technically a member.
- Anthony-G 1y agoI always figured that the president of the European Commission is a member of the European Commission but I wasn’t 100% sure if that is “technically” the case. I did some research and The list of Members of the von der Leyen Commission¹ clarifies that the president – along with the vice-presidents – are included among the 27 members of the “College of Commissioners”. ¹ https://commission.europa.eu/about/organisation/college-commissioners_en https://commission.europa.eu/about/organisation/college-comm...
- riffraff 1y agoYou cannot vote out a single member of the government/parliament in many democracies, it is not an intrinsic characteristic of any system we call so.