The British Home Office said the British government intends to negotiate with EU member states on more mutual guarantees of the right to vote and be elected to EU citizens living in Great Britain and British citizens living in the EU.
EU citizens who settled in Britain at the end of 2020, at the end of the transition period following the end of British membership (Brexit), will still be eligible to vote in local elections as both voters and candidates, according to the British House. office on Thursday evening.
For those who arrived after the end of the transition period at the end of December, voting rights will be further determined by the principle of mutual governance of rights, MTI said.
According to the department, since Brexit, some EU member states have not maintained the voting rights of British citizens living there. That is why the British government is working with each member state to reach an agreement that allows British citizens who have settled there to vote in local elections, in return for giving British citizens in those countries the right to vote in British local elections, London said Thursday in its internal affairs statement.
