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Re:EU vaccine rollout severely lags behind by turbinerneiter on Monday March 22, 2021 @05:52PM (#26547738)
I'm Austrian and pro EU.

We were promised that the candidate of the strongest party in the parliament election will get the job.

Every time this comes up people explain to me again what I already know, and never ever they seem to remember what the people were promised before the election.

Re:EU vaccine rollout severely lags behind by IfOnlyYouKnew on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @03:05AM (#26551930)
That system was propagated by the two “Spitzenkandidaten” themselves. It’s not a law nor did the national governments sign up for it.

So yes, it was a bit of deception, created as part of of a fight between institutions. Just about nobody decided their vote based on these candidates, anyway.

Re:EU vaccine rollout severely lags behind by turbinerneiter on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @03:42AM (#26552160)
If nothing that is being promised during an election actually matters, we really don't have to keep pretending like this is a democracy.