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Councilman IU-Greens in Murcia, José Ignacio Tornel, presented at the full council next Thursday a motion requesting that the City initiate a public campaign for immigrants who meet the requirements to register and to exercise their right to vote in the upcoming municipal elections.
Tornel recalled that immigrants from countries that have signed reciprocal agreements with Spain and meet certain administrative requirements are entitled to participate in the upcoming municipal elections if previously enrolled for it.
Spain has signed agreements with Bolivia, Cape Verde, Colombia, Korea, Chile, Ecuador, Iceland, Norway, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago and New Zealand.
Councilman IU-Green has highlighted the need for this campaign institutional, given that the deadline for submitting applications at City Hall to them for registration began EL1 December 2014 and end on January 15, 2015.
Finally, he highlighted the importance of recognizing the right to vote for immigrants as a civil right.
"The basic principle of contemporary citizenship is that in the political community all subjects who have the status of citizens are equal before the law regardless of gender, race, residence, religion or origin. Citizenship thus appears as an expression of human dignity that gives autonomy and self-determination to create, along with others, harmonious coexistence ".
Source: IURM
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