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> In the last election, the people could elect the President of the Commission.

What are you basing this on? The President of the Commission is, by law, proposed by the European Council and validated or not by the European Parliament. Since there was no single majority party after the election, it's not completely surprising that backroom deals led to a different president than the desire of the party holding the most seats.

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> 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.

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

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