Later edit: I think you might me on the wrong understanding path by the so-called "democratic deficit" expression that is often-times used when referring to decision-making inside the EU (and hence to the European Commission, its executive arm), I think "dictatorship" does a much better job of telling things for what they really are.
Candidates are not elected by voters but positioned.
Once people have cast their vote, members of the comission are not automatically determined but negotiated across political families, and the bureaucracy.
Time to tear down this ridiculous administrative, bureaucratic, corporative and very expensive leviathan.
And they 'magically' approved a short list of US-lobby-backed unelected personas for leadership positions, who are pushing everything ranging from the chat control law to this privacy-killing 'deregulation', while ruining Eu's trade relationships with everyone from China to Africa to boot.
In my opinion, elections are not the only condition to have a functional democracy. So, having elections is not enough.