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by M95D 75 days ago
NO! Laws should be drafted by lawyers and professionals in those fields. An election would select lawmakers by popularity contest. Can't expect good laws from tht kind of people.

What's needed is accountability for drafted laws and removal of those who repeatedly draft laws rejected by parliament.

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> and removal of those who repeatedly draft laws rejected by parliament.

While I believe I understand where you are coming from, this seems unduly broad and harsh.

What limit on time, number of attempts, etc. whould we apriori in advance place on laws like equality, climate monitoring, abortion rights, etc. before the gate is dropped on any more of that kind of thing?

Limits should not be placed on laws, but on law authors. Each one with his own count of rejected laws. Like this: author signs some drafts, drafts go to parliament, N drafts rejected -> author dismissed from Eu commision. It could even be a ratio of adopted laws vs. rejected laws. Drop below threshold -> dismissed.
> An election would select lawmakers by popularity contest

That’s democracy.

And that's one of the main disadvantages of it. EU is trying to avoid those if possible, while still maintaining democracy's advantages. So far, this Commision / Parliament setup seems to be working just fine.