DISINFO: The authoritarian West represses political participation of European peopl
SUMMARY
The collective West has been long using repressive authoritarian methods by not involving people in political processes. A typical example is the European Commission, which sets the main agenda of EU countries, but does not elect its commissioners by popular vote.
RESPONSE
Recurrent pro-Kremlin narrative discrediting the democracy in the EU and claiming that EU countries are puppets subjugated by the so-called Collective West.
The President of the EU Commission is elected for a 5-year term by the European Parliament, following the European elections. Ursula von der Leyen was elected on 16 July 2019.
The European Council (EU heads of state or government) proposes a presidential candidate to the Parliament. Because the choice of candidate must take into account the European election results, the proposed candidate generally comes from the largest political group in the Parliament.
The Parliament has to approve the new Commission President by an absolute majority (half of all MEPs, plus one). Once approved, the European Council officially appoints the new President.
Read similar cases claiming that The President of the EC has no mandate, but declared war on Russia that Ursula von der Leyen unilaterally banned independent media, that lined up with the US, the EU never took independent decisions, that Europe is a colony of the United States and that When the US orders, the EU complies.