According to the Mayor of London, EU citizens living in Great Britain should be given the right to vote in British parliamentary elections. On Thursday, on the seventh anniversary of Britain’s EU membership referendum held on June 23, 2016, Sadiq Khan published an open letter to the more than one million EU citizens living in the British capital of nine million.
Khan – who represents the Labor Party at the head of the London City Council – said:
joins calls for EU citizens living in Britain to be given the right to vote in UK parliamentary elections.
You can vote in local and mayoral elections, and it would be appropriate if you also had a say in who makes the laws that apply to you.
– says the Mayor of London in his open letter.
Citizens of EU member states who live legally in Great Britain are required to register on the British Electoral List, just like British citizens, but they can only vote in British local government and legislative elections in Wales and Scotland, not in Great Britain’s national parliamentary elections.
Great Britain left the European Union on January 31, 2020, after a slim majority of 51.89 percent voted to leave the European Union in a referendum held just seven years ago. However, within the national average, Londoners – with 70 percent participation – voted 60 percent for Great Britain to remain a member of the European Union.
Seven of the 10 national constituencies that voted to remain in the highest proportion were London, and some areas of the British capital – including Hackney, Lambeth and Haringey – voted for more EU membership at a rate of over 75%.
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