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    Aontú presenta il disegno di legge per consentire ai cittadini NI di votare alle elezioni presidenziali

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    2. Such_Significance905 on

      Maybe start with non-university graduates from the Republic being allowed to vote in Seanad elections, ridiculous that eg Trinity grads get a vote and other citizens don’t

    3. Marzipan_civil on

      If it requires a referendum to change who can vote, what’s this bill trying to achieve?

    4. mr_cuddles1 on

      Would be curious for what this would mean for people who can claim citizenship through a parent or grandparent? Do they get the right to vote too?

    5. T4rbh on

      What? So a northern Loyalist can vote for the rapist to become Irish president, just for a laugh? No. Fuck that.

    7. BigDrummerGorilla on

      To be honest, I don’t see the value in the proposal. The right to vote should only be afforded to those who live in the jurisdiction, who are directly impacted by the political process and pay taxes here. I hold other citizenships, I don’t get any input full stop in those countries and I’m content with that.

      Seems a little close to October to be bringing this forward now.

    8. mrlinkwii on

      TBH i see nothing wrong with this , assuming the normal voting requirements are applicable

    9. Cear-Crakka on

      100% Irish citizens who live on the Island of Ireland should be able to vote in presidential elections. Of course, this would have to be worked out in terms of the voting register, but I find it deplorable that our Northern brothers and sisters are excluded. I’d also like to see the potential of a postal vote for citizens outside of the state/island altogether, strictly restricted to recent emigres or citizens within the EU.

    10. whitemaltese on

      I would never forget the woman who knocked on my door and asked me immediately if I’ve voting right. She didn’t even say hello or ask how I was.

      Racist, just racist cunt who was very obnoxious and wanted to know all my immigration status.

    12. IntentionFalse8822 on

      No representation without taxation.

      If you want a say in how a country is run you should have a stake in how it is run and in particular the consequences if you mess up the choice.

    13. Weepsie on

      For a party with 2 TDS they know how to get an awful lot of attention

    14. sparksAndFizzles on

      This is probably a move that would lead to some Trump/GOP/Musk endorsed Twitter meme elected as president.

      When we’ve a united ireland great, but at the moment it wouldn’t make much sense to me to expand the franchise across the border.

      I actually think moves like this could undermine a united Ireland by facilitating the status quo a bit too much tbh too. It’s the kind of thing where you pretend independence doesn’t matter at all – next thing you know we’ve given Charles III some ceremonial role or rejoined the Commonwealth etc

      We could easily create a North-South body to represent that vote in some other context, and in keeping with the spirit of the GFA.

      The other often floated proposal to just directly expand it to every Irish citizen abroad would be a total mess. We’d just end up with a president representing Irish America.

    16. genericusername5763 on

      Complete noise

      A quick look at how citizenship right/voting/the constitution work here will easily see what a terrible idea this is. It could lead to our elections/constitution being completely railroaded

      There is absolutely no way for a politician to suggest this in good faith

    19. oneeyedman72 on

      The old saying about ‘no taxation without representation’ should hold true here.
      Irish citizens from outside the juristiction should be allowed vote in the presidential election if they pay tax here.

    20. Key-Lie-364 on

      Níl, go raibh maith agaibh.

      I don’t want Adams or some other IRA killer as Uachtarán na hÉireann, thx

    22. Own-Pirate-8001 on

      Aontú are cunts, but they’re not wrong here.

      Irish citizens in the north should absolutely get to vote for the president.

    23. Negative-Message-447 on

      To be clear for the naysayers, the current system is moronic, Irish people who work south of the border and live north of the border are taxed and have no way of voting for representatives. But we CAN join political parties in the south and vote internally in them for policy etc. In fact I know of cases of people from the north, living in the south, but because they don’t have a permit address they can’t register to vote. It’s farcical.

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