European Union citizens have until December 30 to register for local election voting
Thursday, October 30, 2014 @ 9:24 AM
A TOTAL of over 840,000 European Union citizens qualify to vote in the local elections in Spain this coming May, according to the National Institute of Statistics (INE).
Anyone who has not cast their ballot in a town election before in Spain – no matter where they are from – may need to register to do so and should enquire at their town hall, although those who have previously voted in the same municipality will automatically be listed on the electoral census for May 2015.
The deadline for those not registered is December 30, 2014.
Most of the EU citizens eligible to vote next year are from Romania, the UK, Germany, Italy and France, in that order.
So far, the Electoral Census Office has sent out 422,008 letters to EU citizens residing in Spain who will be aged 18 or over on the day of the elections in May, asking them to register – but even those who believe they are not yet registered and have not received a letter should make enquiries before the end of the year.
Those who have will merely have to fill in a simple form and return it postage-paid in the mail.
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