During the roll-call vote, the draft law was upvoted on the Authority, the articles and as a whole by the MPs of the ND, PASOK-KINAL, Niki and Plevsis Eleftherias
With 208 votes “for”, against 68 “against” and 24 “present” the Plenary passed the draft law of the Ministry of the Interior on the “Removal of restrictions on registration in the special electoral lists of foreign voters”, exceeding the bar of at least 200 positive votes required by the constitutional provision.
During the roll-call vote, the draft law was overvoted on the Authority, the articles and as a whole by the MPs of ND, PASOK-KINAL, Niki and Plefsis Eleftherias. SYRIZA PS and KKE voted against it, while Spartans and Hellenic Solution voted “present”.
The provisions of the bill stipulate that: Voters who wish to be facilitated in exercising their right to vote will be registered on their own in the special foreign electoral rolls. Enrollment in the special foreign electoral rolls can be done at any time upon application by the interested party in accordance with the procedure of article 4 of Law 4648/2019.
Correspondingly, the modification regarding the residential address, the suspension or the cancellation of the application for registration in the special foreign electoral rolls. The acceptance or rejection of the application is made by decision of the Directorate of Elections of the Ministry of the Interior. Henceforth, in his application, the voter fills in his details and specifies the non-State area of ​​jurisdiction of the diplomatic or consular authority, in which he wishes to exercise his right to vote.
The registration application is finalized by a decision of the Directorate of Elections of the Ministry of the Interior. The request for change and suspension or deletion will immediately become final. The conditions for registration in the special electoral lists of foreign voters and the application of the restrictions for registration in the special electoral lists in the elections for the nomination of members of the European Parliament are abolished, as well as the authorization of the Ministry of the Interior for the ex officio search for supporting documents or the extraction of the required information from the databases of the Greek State which were provided for in Law 4648/2019.
Source: Skai
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