There is a great chance that Europe has throughout Cold War lost its rule by the people to a level that Votes are just false.
When Germans discuss if Le Pain in France might come to power be being voted throughout the liberal center... they are spitting at French culture, if we look at French culture by history. What is going on being reason to vote the far right is stating French would be racists as such visible by them only ever eating Baguette.
There are too many little errors in our current system to completely put that possibility into the area of paranoid conspiracy theories.
Police decides like Judges, 60 Million vote 600 to rule them, Judges overrule voted Majors, every Industry is served by Oligopolies, Monopoly Syndicates are not dismantled no matter how market dominant and Africans live in France only since the 1960ies no matter the harbours of Marseilles and Algiers.
Of course a small group of outlaws cannot rule an entire people. Also of course, that never stopped any of those from trying.
