European elections: all you need to know
What are
The European Elections are political elections with universal suffrage that in the European Union have the purpose of electing the members of parliament. Every five years, EU citizens choose who will represent them in the European Parliament, the directly elected institution that expresses their interests in the decision-making process of the European Union.
When you vote
The date of the 2014 elections was set for tomorrow, Sunday 25 May (DPR 17/3/2014). The polling stations will be open from 7:00 to 23:00.
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What, how to vote and why it is important to do so
We will go to the polls to renew the European Parliament for the five-year period 2014-2019; this body will be composed of 751 parliamentarians - 73 belonging to Italy and who will therefore be elected by us - which has very important functions in the field of community legislation and in particular will play a key role in the election of the next president of the European Commission, which will take place in "autumn of 2014.
The voting mechanism for these European elections is slightly different from that of the political elections: each voter must put a sign on the symbol of the list or party he intends to reward with his vote, writing, in the appropriate space next to each symbol, the names of three candidates to whom he intends to give his preference.
With regard to this last point, it is necessary to point out a novelty that has arisen from the norm on women's quotas: the three preferences cannot be given to three candidates of the same sex: therefore at least one must be of a different sex than the other two.
Who can vote
All citizens who have reached the age of eighteen and are registered on the electoral roll will be able to vote. Citizens of other EU member countries registered in the appropriate electoral list of the Italian municipality of residence are also voters.
Italian citizens residing abroad and regularly registered in the AIRE (Register of Italians Resident Abroad) can exercise the right to vote in their place of residence. Voters temporarily abroad for study or work reasons and not registered in the list residents of other EU member countries, on the other hand, can vote upon request to the competent Consulate.
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