Well, one doesn't need to look very long at Von der Leyen to work out it's probably both.

Look at what she did before becoming EU Commission president ("Among friends and foes alike, von der Leyen’s stewardship of the [German] defense ministry, which she [..] headed since 2014, [was] regarded as a failure."[0]), and look at how she ended up with the job of EU Commission president. The best (worst?) bit is that she wasn't even a candidate for the job she got.

I have several ex-RAF friends, and their joke back then was that von der Leyen had more children than her ministry had working fast jets.

[0] https://www.politico.eu/article/ursula-von-der-leyen-biograp...