ABSTRACT
The claim of unfairness against the electorate of small countries considered as a whole, taking as benchmark the one-person-one-vote (OPOV) principle, appears unjustified in terms of voting power in the European Parliament (EP) both for the political-game and for the national-game. Following the OPOV principle, which assigns equal voting rights to every citizen, FICP =1 means fair distribution of voting rights in terms of voting power. It is often asserted that the national seat allocation in the EP favours the voters of big countries who vote for big parties. It clearly shows that members of the EP (MEPs) play the national games by crossing the institutional schemes of political parties laid down for the EP2. The fairness is measured by an index of electors' voting rights. The constitutional rule is sometimes exacerbated, depending on the votes obtained and the rule of transformation of votes into seats.
