So it's fraudulent
by design?
Reminds me of the middle ages and the Churfuersten, electing the "Kaiser".
The people of "nobility" allowed to vote and deciding the outcome have changed to people with the most money, but apart from that ..
Astonishingly the European laws are in a way similar as in the US, a smaller country like Belgium has the same say and voting power as e.g. France - at least theoretically. All partaking conutries have the same right and own sovereignty.
Of course here it is countries, not counties within one country or nation.
This was introduced so that bigger countries do not automatically rule over smaller ones.