elected

A few months later, Puech voted at the annual meeting as Hermès’s largest individual shareholder and was elected to the board.

Rodriguez said that Friday’s vote should send a message that the city council needs “to be consulted as a legislative body that is independently elected by the people.”

In April when Santos was sentenced a judge told him: "You got elected with your words, most of which were lies."

“Our members’ decisions about which candidates to endorse and what resources to use in support of those endorsed candidates are made by our elected bodies.”

Yet no one suggested that unelected bureaucrats be given power over the people’s elected representatives to determine taxpayer spending.