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A related issue is a proposed right of people in Northern Ireland to vote in the Republic. [11] Arguments in favour of expatriates voting include the economic and cultural importance of the Irish diaspora and the potential benefits of increasing its engagement with the state, and a moral debt owed to reluctant emigrants. [12]
The President of Ireland is formally elected by the citizens of Ireland once in every seven years, except in the event of premature vacancy, when an election must be held within sixty days. The President is directly elected by secret ballot under the system of the instant-runoff voting (although the Constitution describes it as "the system of ...
Some countries (such as France) grant their expatriate citizens unlimited voting rights, identical to those of citizens living in their home country. [2] Other countries allow expatriate citizens to vote only for a certain number of years after leaving the country, after which they are no longer eligible to vote (e.g. 25 years for Germany, except if you can show that you are still affected by ...
The Irish diaspora is large and the question of voting rights for emigrants and other expatriates has arisen continually since the 1980s. The Oireachtas committee on the constitution considered the matter in 2002; it recommended no extension of the franchise, but that among the senators nominated by the Taoiseach should be "a person or persons ...
The Electoral Amendment Bill 1983 had purported to allow British citizens to vote, but was ruled to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. [22] The 1985 change, [21] restated in 1992, [23] allows the Dáil franchise to be similarly extended on a reciprocal basis to citizens of other countries. [24] As of 2021 this has not been applied. [24]
Voters across Ireland cast their ballots in the country’s general election on 29 November and, ... After achieving its highest vote share since 1922 in 2020, the party’s support has dipped ...
In many countries, some subnational entities have granted voting rights to non-citizens. Other countries have granted voting rights to non-citizens who hold citizenship of a country which is a fellow member of a supranational organization (e.g. members of the European Union). In a few cases, countries or other governmental entities grant voting ...
What are those countries doing right, and could the U.S. eventually adopt those practices? America's electoral process has been in the news quite a bit since early April, with many presidential ...