With Greeks Abroad gaining the right to vote in Greek elections, they will soon be able to do so by mail as a measure allowing it was sent to the Parliament where the New Democracy government has a majority.
It establishes postal voting as the exclusive method of voting for national elections by Greeks living in other countries and sets the day after the official announcement of national elections as the deadline for registration to vote by mail.
It expands the right to postal voting beyond European Parliamentary elections and referendums, said the state-run Athens-Macedonia News Agency and applies only to those living outside Greece, who must be registered in the special mail-in lists and provide a foreign address.
Based on the Greek constitution, the amendment will need to be supported by at least 200 deputies (a two-thirds majority), and its provisions will go into effect in the next national elections.
‘Since a consensus is arising for the postal vote of Greek residents abroad in the European elections, why not also for the national elections? This is a self-evident extension of facilitation that we have been discussing for five decades,” Interior Minister Niki Kerameus said in Parliament.
Kerameus said, “We have been debating in this Parliament for 50 years whether we will make it easier for Greek citizens living abroad to exercise their sacred right to vote.”
“Since 2019,” she said, “steps that transcend parties and colors” have been taken in this direction. “Let’s proceed, all the parties together, step by step,” said the minister.
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