The English government has decided to extend the deadline to be entered on the electoral roll foreigners who want to vote in municipal elections May 22, according to confirmed sources from the Office of the Ministry of Interior Embassy of Ecuador in Madrid.
The term, which began last December 1 and due to end on Jan. 15, has decided to extend until Tuesday 25 January.
Last Friday, January 7, Ambassador of Ecuador Galo Chiriboga Zambrano wrote to the Senior Vice President and Minister of Interior Spain, Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, requesting an extension.
In his letter, the diplomat reminded that the registration on the electoral register is a prerequisite for them to vote in the upcoming municipal elections Ecuadorian citizens and other nationals resident in Spain, whose countries have signed agreements in this matter.
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initially fixed for the said registration, from 1 December to 15 January 2011, included several bridges, the holidays and year-end and other administrative problems that were once made known to the Central Electoral Board, which has caused some Ecuadorians have not been able to make the appropriate registry.
The drawbacks alluded concerned the requirement of the certificate issued by a Police Station as an additional requirement for the registration of foreigners in the electoral roll, certified by the Ecuadorian embassy knew, was delivered to stakeholders within 25 days, but later the term was reduced to a single day, after the English authorities had ordered a top priority issue.
For all these reasons, Ambassador Chiriboga Zambrano requested in its submission to Minister Perez Rubalcaba "to consider extending the registration period, this request has been shared and supported by other Latin American embassies and associations of migrants living in Spain.
The right to participate in elections for Ecuadorian citizens living in Spain, and English each other also for those domiciled in Ecuador, is based on the agreement signed between both countries in Quito in February 2009.
Like Ecuador, may also participate in the May elections the citizens of seven other EU countries with which Spain has signed the relevant conventions, five of them in Latin America (Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay and Peru), plus Norway and New Zealand.
order to vote is a prerequisite to be registered on the Electoral Register, and it must be over 18 years, not to be deprived of the right to vote, had lived five years without interruption in Spain and have permission valid residence.
According to official National Statistics Institute (INE) are 343,960 foreign nationals from countries outside the European Union living in Spain, and among them 168,639 Ecuadorians who meet all the requirements to vote in the May elections .- FIN
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