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What was wrong with the question? Juncker wasn't elected by anyone.
What's scarier, you believe that or that you believe that. The levels of ignorance know no bounds. I'd accept 'I don't know, but it's made all the worse be claiming 'I do know + false facts' - This was the Brexit campaign really and it worked.
"On 27 June the European Council officially nominated Juncker for the position, and on 15 July the European Parliament elected him with a majority of 422 votes from a total of 729 cast. He succeeded Jose Manuel Barroso as president on 1 November 2014."
"Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain
What's scarier, you believe that or that you believe that. The levels of ignorance know no bounds. I'd accept 'I don't know, but it's made all the worse be claiming 'I do know + false facts' - This was the Brexit campaign really and it worked.
"On 27 June the European Council officially nominated Juncker for the position, and on 15 July the European Parliament elected him with a majority of 422 votes from a total of 729 cast. He succeeded Jose Manuel Barroso as president on 1 November 2014."
Thank you for reposting Vetran 's input.
The reality is "This trend reached its apotheosis with the application of the concept ofSpitzenkandidaten*for the position of European Commission president. According to this idea — not mentioned in the EU treaties and dreamt up by federalists like European Parliament President*Martin Schulz*— the president would be selected by the political group that won the most seats in the European parliamentary elections. What had traditionally been an appointment by Europe’s elected leaders and approved by Parliament became the choice, in large part, of a legislature seen in most European countries, quite rightly, as less legitimate than national institutions."
Credit: Daniel Korski
In the world you inhabit that horse with a cone on its head is a bleeding unicorn. Try the real world and not your EU PR fantasy world.
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