EU Citizens or Aliens? - Oisin Jones-Dillon
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- AD officials meet EU Parliament Office Director on discrimination
- Resident Non-Maltese EU Citizens and their right to vote in the European Parliament Elections
- Stop Disenfranchisement: Most resident Non-Maltese EU citizens not registered to vote - AD
- Non-Maltese EU citizens: discrimination? - Readers Letter
- The Electoral Office discriminates against EU residents in Malta and Gozo - AD
- Exercise your basic EU right to vote in the European Parliament elections - Readers Letter
- AD asks corporations if deposits have been refunded to EU residents
- An MEP for Gozo - Franco Masini
- Electoral Commission notice on Special Voting Documents
- Details of revision of the General Election Electoral Register
- Revision of General Election Electoral Register
- Reminder to verify Electoral Register inclusion
- Local council elections are to be held on the 8th of March
- European Parliament Citizens Forum to discuss Freedom of Information
- Notice to the public from the Electoral Commission
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Dear Sir,
Print media reportage of the recent clash between the Electoral Commission and the leader of AD -The Green Party, Prof. Arnold Cassola, who is championing the voting rights of resident non-Maltese EU citizens, appositely coincided with the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream' speech in which he portentously declaimed, 'We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote?..'
The ongoing national debate regarding the enfranchisement of 16 and 17-year-olds has therefore left a much more immediate, compelling democratic deficit neglected and unaddressed.
It concerns the 11,000 resident non-Maltese EU citizens who, unlike Maltese nationals, are at present denied their lawful right to enrol on the electoral register for the European Parliament elections scheduled to be held in Malta and Gozo next year.
What could their impediment possibly be? Are these taxpayers deemed too mature to be eligible or does it connote a corollary to the 'A' printed on their identity cards? Are they considered too alien to qualify?
Yours faithfully,
Oisin Jones-Dillon
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