Ex-Pat Democracy - the French show the way
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Ex-Pat Democracy - the French show the way
Here's the story:
French citizens will for the first time this year be able to vote in a parliamentary election over the Internet, an experiment that could be extended to other elections if successful.
Edouard Courtial, the junior minister for French living abroad, told journalists on Friday that French expatriates would be able to choose their 11 MPs by Internet during June’s two-round parliamentary vote.
The estimated one million French citizens living abroad were previously only allowed to vote in presidential elections but this year they will have 11 deputies representing their interests in parliament, also a first.
Imagine if the thirty million displaced Europeans in Europe (living in another European country than their own) actually had representation in Brussels. Perhaps that nice Mr Cameron would follow the French (non?).
French citizens will for the first time this year be able to vote in a parliamentary election over the Internet, an experiment that could be extended to other elections if successful.
Edouard Courtial, the junior minister for French living abroad, told journalists on Friday that French expatriates would be able to choose their 11 MPs by Internet during June’s two-round parliamentary vote.
The estimated one million French citizens living abroad were previously only allowed to vote in presidential elections but this year they will have 11 deputies representing their interests in parliament, also a first.
Imagine if the thirty million displaced Europeans in Europe (living in another European country than their own) actually had representation in Brussels. Perhaps that nice Mr Cameron would follow the French (non?).
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Re: Ex-Pat Democracy - the French show the way
Here's the story:
French citizens will for the first time this year be able to vote in a parliamentary election over the Internet, an experiment that could be extended to other elections if successful.
Edouard Courtial, the junior minister for French living abroad, told journalists on Friday that French expatriates would be able to choose their 11 MPs by Internet during June’s two-round parliamentary vote.
The estimated one million French citizens living abroad were previously only allowed to vote in presidential elections but this year they will have 11 deputies representing their interests in parliament, also a first.
Imagine if the thirty million displaced Europeans in Europe (living in another European country than their own) actually had representation in Brussels. Perhaps that nice Mr Cameron would follow the French (non?).
French citizens will for the first time this year be able to vote in a parliamentary election over the Internet, an experiment that could be extended to other elections if successful.
Edouard Courtial, the junior minister for French living abroad, told journalists on Friday that French expatriates would be able to choose their 11 MPs by Internet during June’s two-round parliamentary vote.
The estimated one million French citizens living abroad were previously only allowed to vote in presidential elections but this year they will have 11 deputies representing their interests in parliament, also a first.
Imagine if the thirty million displaced Europeans in Europe (living in another European country than their own) actually had representation in Brussels. Perhaps that nice Mr Cameron would follow the French (non?).
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Re: Ex-Pat Democracy - the French show the way
rebuild Hadrian's wall I say!
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Re: Ex-Pat Democracy - the French show the way
And there was I, thinking someone was going to include me in this democracy milarky.
Let the Scottish have to show their passports every time they want to come south of the border!
Let the Scottish have to show their passports every time they want to come south of the border!
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Re: Ex-Pat Democracy - the French show the way
Then we could put up the barriers.
They will eventually realise they are better off down South, in more ways than just the weather.............