4 Amendments of Ivo BELET related to 2015/2035(INL)
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P
Recital P
P. whereas not all Member States afford their citizens the possibility of voting from abroad, and among those that do, the conditions for deprivation of the right to vote vary greatly; whereas granting all Union citizens residing outside the Union the right to participate in elections would contribute to electoral equality; whereas, however, Member States need to coordinate their administrative systems better in order to prevent voters from voting twice in two different Member States;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Q
Recital Q
Q. whereas the minimum age for eligibility to stand as a candidate across the 28 Member States varies between 18 and 25, and the minimum age for eligibility to vote ranges from 16 to 18, due to the divergent constitutional and electoral traditions in the Member States; whereas harmonisationeventual convergence of the voting age, and of the minimum age for candidates, would be highly desirable as a means of providing Union citizens with real voting equality, and would enable discrimination to be avoided in the most fundamental area of citizenship: the right to participate in the democratic process;
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Proposes that Union citizens who reside in a third country be granted the right to cast their vote in elections to the European Parliament; considers that this would finally give all Union citizens the same right to vote in European elections under the same conditions, irrespective of their place of residence or nationality; calls on Member States, however, to coordinate their administrative systems better in order to prevent voters from voting twice in two different Member States;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. As a future step, recommends to Member States that they should consider ways to harmoniseencourage convergence of the minimum age of voters at 16, in order to further enhance electoral equality among Union citizens;