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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_European_Comm...

> The Spitzenkandidat of the largest party would then have a mandate to assume the Commission Presidency

While this is not de jure, German-speaking media did report on the 2019 election as if the above were consensus. It is my understanding that this was not the case in all EU countries.

[tsimionescu]

Interesting, I had never heard of this, and this was not in any way how the election was presented in Romania where I live.