Sei consapevole che i cittadini stranieri che risiedono in Finlandia possono votare alle elezioni locali?
https://vaalit.fi/en/right-to-vote-and-compilation-of-the-voting-register-in-county-and-municipal-elections
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Sei consapevole che i cittadini stranieri che risiedono in Finlandia possono votare alle elezioni locali?
https://vaalit.fi/en/right-to-vote-and-compilation-of-the-voting-register-in-county-and-municipal-elections
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Yes and I am one of those people. I will not be voting in a country where I am not a citizen.
Point being that you’re paying municipal taxes. You should have vote on what your surroundings are doing with your money.
Yes, and I think it’s good they can do so. After all that’s where they live. The local elections basically only get to decide what services the municipality provides, based on the budget they receive.
It’s not like they decide on laws or foreign policy
I thought this was common knowledge. In the country where I am a citizen, I can’t vote in local elections because I don’t live there. However, I can vote in parliamentary elections since those decisions still affect my life. On the other hand, in the country where I live but am not a citizen, I can vote in local elections because they directly impact my daily life. But I’m not eligible to vote in parliamentary or presidential elections here in Finland because I have no permanent ties, so I could leave at any time.
As a non-citizen resident this stood out to me as one of the reasons Finland is a progressive and functional democracy and a place to make my home… it’s absolutely reasonable that as a tax paying member of the society I have some say in in the governance. I wish more countries behaved this way. Hyvä Suomi!