Since the head of the commission was never ever voted for in the EU elections, who ever was proposed was just providing a face anyway. Much like the Chancellor in Germany, you vote for a party that proposed a person to become chancellor in case said party leads a coalition government. There is no way to prevent said party to just have someone else being elected chancellor by parliament. It is still democratic so.

It seems people here from the US have fundamental misconception of how the EU works.

Honestly, I think Weird Al would be the best choice anyway…

> It's like having a presidenctial race between Biden and Trump and then installing Weird Al Yankovic as president after all votes are counted.

This could still happen in the USA. The electors (the 538 people in the Electoral College who actually pick the president) could vote for anyone they wanted, and if enough wanted Weird Al then he would be POTUS. States have made laws to require electors to vote for the person who won the state election or face punishment, but that is not a Constitutional requirement or anything.

> It's like having a presidenctial race between Biden and Trump and then installing Weird Al Yankovic as president after all votes are counted.

Is that meant to be a bad thing? Because you make it sound like a good thing.