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Re:E.U.’S New Digital Czar: ‘Most Powerful Regulator of Big ... by ploika on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @03:36PM (#20943832)
That's misleading. It wasn't a bait-and-switch. In fine EU tradition there was long drawn-out horse-trading and compromise and settlement on a candidate tolerable enough to be accepted by 28 different countries and the European Parliament. Enough country leaders felt strongly enough that they couldn't accept Weber that they didn't endorse him.

The Spitzenkandidat system isn't law per se - it's a (very new) convention mostly being pushed by the European Parliament. The European Council (that is, the presidents, prime ministers and chancellors of each EU country) has always had to give or withhold an endorsement to whoever the European Parliament proposed to lead the European Commission.

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Re:E.U.’S New Digital Czar: ‘Most Powerful Regulator of Big ... by sprash on Thursday September 12, 2019 @01:06AM (#20948185)
The point is if people knew that they would get v.d. Leyen they never would have voted for EVP. The voter has apparently zero control over who gets the most powerful position in the EU. Note that commissioners not only have exectuive power but also legistlive power. Hence the EU is inherently undemocratic, a blatant power grap by the elites that needs to be abolished entirely ASAP.
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