^^ i would call this representative democracy, which in no way is different from England's government elections, or german, or french etc., for that matter ?
"Every government has bureaucrats which are by nature unelected. While the EU has around 33,000 of them, the British government employs over 400,000 civil [my edit:
unelected]
servants."
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lseupr/2019/...d-bureaucrats/
Also here:
https://www.economist.com/the-econom...ed-bureaucrats
The complaint might be that not only junior EU officials, but many senior ones are appointed rather than elected. This, too, is true of all governments. British papers that disparage the "unelected" Michel Barnier, the EU’s lead Brexit negotiator, would struggle to find a country that has an elected trade representative. And Juncker or now Mrs von der Leyen are not deciders or rulers of the executive, but rather
mediators.
You vote for a person of whom you expect to represent your ideas most or best. True, in England some.. rulers are born into the house of Lords without having to prove competence or knowledge in a class society, nor do they need to have a people's majority for their position.
(But as Stephen Fry said, "why not, as long as it works")
Not that elected politicians are necessarily better qualified, though there are some (even if it's a rare breed).
But you cannot quite compare this to the EU, and the "unelected bureaucrats" acccusation does not hold water. No, indeed it does not,
look at the links i posted, and not for the first time.