11 Feb, 2018 @ 15:06
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Lifting of voting ban for British expats in Spain will NOT include referendums

Voting slip

THE upcoming legislation to allow British expats in Spain and abroad to vote in UK elections will not include referendums.

The Overseas Electors Bill is due for a second reading in the House of Commons on February 23.

But if there was another referendum on Brexit, expats are not guaranteed a vote.

The UK Foreign Office told the Olive Press: “There is no one rule for who can vote in a referendum.

“When a national referendum is announced, Parliament will decide who can vote in it as part of the legislation on that referendum.”

Some 17,410,742 Brits voted to leave the EU in the June 2016 vote, compared to 16,141,241 who opted to remain.

Around 800,000 expats believed to be living in Europe were forbidden from voting, although the figure could be much higher.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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