[mk89]

Uh?

In Germany people vote for the parties, and then the Bundespresident "randomly" picks the chancellor: the person that throughout the campaign/pre-election period mentioned everywhere on tv and in the news "I want to be the chancellor, because ...". At the same time, it's (again) "randomly" the person belonging to the party who won with the most votes.

Then the Bundestag has to assess whether the President chose really properly and randomly this person: was it actually the person who belongs to the party who won the most votes and that said throughout the campaign "I want to be the chancellor" or did the President play a trick on us? Most of the times, they are indeed the person that screamed the loudest throughout the campaign. So it matches. AFAIK it never happened that the President actually randomly picked someone else.

Literally everyone knows who is the "chancellor candidate" in case their party reaches the majority. OK, the President could play a trick, but concretely this never happens, so it's good enough for most people.

Now, go and tell the people who voted for CSU / Weber Spitzenkandidat and got Von Der Leyen instead ;)

[ahartmetz]

The EU certainly has some too indirectly elected politicians with too much power (the damn EU commission!) doing too little of what citizens want and too much of what they (or their... sponsors) want.