Approximately 10,000 foreign residents will be able to vote in the elections of 2011
The new voters represent the 11 percent of the total number of voters, according to the data of the last municipal elections. The non European Common Market residents of voting age in the municipalities is between 6 and 14 percent.
In the municipal elections of 2011 there will be around 10,000 voters more, all of them non Common Market residents.
If the proposal prospers to extend the right to the vote to all the foreign residents in Ibiza and Formentera. At the moment, European Common Market residents can only choose their mayors. In some municipalities, like in the one of Ibiza town, these new voters can suppose as much as 14 percent of the total electorate.
Although there are still seven years to 2011 , if the migratory movements are not modified in a considerable way, the extracommunitarian foreigners would represent 14.1 percent of the votes in Ibiza Town . Ibiza Town would be the municipality with the highest percentage of extracommunitarian electorate, whereas Sant Joan counts on lowest: the residents of outside the European Union represent a 6.4 percent of the total voters in the last elections. In some municipalities, these new voters could decide the government team. In Ibiza town, Sant Antoni and Sant Josep the number of foreigners who could participate in the elections is superior to the difference of votes that between both major political parties.
In the case of Formentera, 541 foreigners could vote, and in the last elections 625 votes could have changed the results.
In Santa Eulària the number of noncommunitarian foreigners of legal age at the moment is of 1,632; more than a thousand more than would have been necessary to alter the electoral results.
Sant Joan is the municipality in which these votes would be less decisive, since noncommunitarian foreigners only represents a tenth part of the difference between PP and the Pacto Progresista.
Source: www.diariodeibiza.es
In the municipal elections of 2011 there will be around 10,000 voters more, all of them non Common Market residents.
If the proposal prospers to extend the right to the vote to all the foreign residents in Ibiza and Formentera. At the moment, European Common Market residents can only choose their mayors. In some municipalities, like in the one of Ibiza town, these new voters can suppose as much as 14 percent of the total electorate.
Although there are still seven years to 2011 , if the migratory movements are not modified in a considerable way, the extracommunitarian foreigners would represent 14.1 percent of the votes in Ibiza Town . Ibiza Town would be the municipality with the highest percentage of extracommunitarian electorate, whereas Sant Joan counts on lowest: the residents of outside the European Union represent a 6.4 percent of the total voters in the last elections. In some municipalities, these new voters could decide the government team. In Ibiza town, Sant Antoni and Sant Josep the number of foreigners who could participate in the elections is superior to the difference of votes that between both major political parties.
In the case of Formentera, 541 foreigners could vote, and in the last elections 625 votes could have changed the results.
In Santa Eulària the number of noncommunitarian foreigners of legal age at the moment is of 1,632; more than a thousand more than would have been necessary to alter the electoral results.
Sant Joan is the municipality in which these votes would be less decisive, since noncommunitarian foreigners only represents a tenth part of the difference between PP and the Pacto Progresista.
Source: www.diariodeibiza.es
