None of the members of the European Commission are elected — they are nominated by member states. Nigel Farage has argued that the commission, supported by a formidable bureaucracy of civil servants, lacks both legitimacy and accountability, as it remains in power regardless of EU parliamentary results. However, as Table 1 demonstrates, there are two sides to this argument.
European parliamentary election turnout has consistently trailed national general election turnout (Table 2). There is no consensus of agreement for why this is.
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