'The dreaded [Italian] voting abroad issue has returned': the shifting Australian Government policy towards expatriate voting ...
In recent years there have been a growing number of countries pushing to enfranchise their citizens living permanently abroad (Spiro 2006: 214). Some countries have created ad hoc expatriate constituencies and representation in their national parliaments (Kull 2008: 462-463). Italy, for instance, al...
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Swinburne
2024
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.25916/sut.26225333.v1 https://swinburne.figshare.com/articles/conference_contribution/_The_dreaded_Italian_voting_abroad_issue_has_returned_the_shifting_Australian_Government_policy_towards_expatriate_voting/26225333/1 |
| Summary: | In recent years there have been a growing number of countries pushing to enfranchise their citizens living permanently abroad (Spiro 2006: 214). Some countries have created ad hoc expatriate constituencies and representation in their national parliaments (Kull 2008: 462-463). Italy, for instance, altered its legislation governing the vote to Italian expatriates in the early 2000s. New legislation saw Italian citizenship holders living abroad granted the right to postal voting and parliamentary representation in Italian elections and referendums. The new legislation made the exercise of overseas voting accessible to all eligible voters through postal voting (2.9 million at the latest general election of 2008), created an overseas constituency divided in four vast electoral colleges (eg. a. Europe, b. South America, c. Central and North America, d. Africa-Asia-Oceania- Antarctica) and provided for representation for the Italian Parliament (12 members of the Chamber of Deputies and 6 Senators). Since 2003, ... |
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