guanyem - the democratic revolution belongs to all of us
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In Guanyem Barcelona, we believe that all citizens have the right to full participation in society, whatever our country of birth. We are all Barcelona, and we all have an equal right to make decisions about everything that affects us, from municipal to state level. That’s why we’ll do everything we can to push for the extension of the right to vote for all of us who don’t yet have it, and to ensure that those of us who already do can exercise it. As our friends in Partido X have shown http://partidox.org/voto-extranjero-2015/, tricks are being played that make it more difficult for Barcelonians of foreign nationality to exercise our right to vote in the municipal elections. Of the many citizens who don’t have Spanish nationality, some of us do have the right to vote, but we are forced to go through an extra bureaucratic process in order to exercise this right. This is yet further proof that this system, which claims to be democratic, excludes one in five people of this city for the sole reason that we weren’t born here. We absolutely Citizens of EU countries must register to vote before 30 December, and citizens of other countries must do so by 15 Januarycondemn this discrimination and will do whatever we can to make sure that to make sure that all citizens know our rights and to help each other to exercise them.The upcoming municipal elections, which will take place on 24 of May 2015, will mark a very important moment in the history of this city. New groups, like Guanyem Barcelona, are standing up to the powers who have a stranglehold on the City Council. There’s everything to play for. That’s why it’s so important that everyone can make their voice heard at the ballot box.TRANSCRIPT
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The democratic revolution belongs to all of us.
In Guanyem Barcelona, we believe that all citizens have the right to full participation in society, whatever our country of birth. We are all Barcelona, and we all have an equal right to make decisions about everything that affects us, from municipal to state level. That’s why we’ll do everything we can to push for the extension of the right to vote for all of us who don’t yet have it, and to ensure that those of us who already do can exercise it. As our friends in Partido X have shown http://partidox.org/voto-extranjero-2015/, tricks are being played that make it more difficult for Barcelonians of foreign nationality to exercise our right to vote in the municipal elections. Of the many citizens who don’t have Spanish nationality, some of us do have the right to vote, but we are forced to go through an extra bureaucratic process in order to exercise this right. This is yet further proof that this system, which claims to be democratic, excludes one in five people of this city for the sole reason that we weren’t born here. We absolutely
Citizens of EU countries must register to vote before 30 December, and citizens of other countries must do so by 15 January
condemn this discrimination and will do whatever we can to make sure that to make sure that all citizens know our rights and to help each other to exercise them.The upcoming municipal elections, which will take place on 24 of May 2015, will mark a very important moment in the history of this city. New groups, like Guanyem Barcelona, are standing up to the powers who have a stranglehold on the City Council. There’s everything to play for. That’s why it’s so important that everyone can make their voice heard at the ballot box.With this in mind, it’s important to know that all EU citizens who reside in Barcelona can vote in the municipal elections, as well as nationals of the following countries who have lived here for at least five years: Bolivia, Cape Verde, Chile, Colombia, Korea, Ecuador, Iceland, Norway, New Zealand, Paraguay, Peru, and Trinidad and Tobago.
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In order to be able to vote, we have to sign up to the electoral register (CERE). Registering to vote is easy:• Ifwearealreadyregisteredas
residentsintheBarcelonaCityCouncilpadrón
1. WehavetofillinthedeclarationformknownasmodeloDFAthattheOficinadelCensoElectoralhassentusbypost.Ifyouhaven’treceivedthisletter,calltheInstitutoNacionaldeEstadística(INE)on901101900torequestit.
2. ThenwejustneedtosendthesigneddeclarationtoDelegaciónProvincialdeBarcelona(VíaLaietana,8-08003Barcelona)byfreepost(noneedforastamp).
Or1. Thedeclarationformcanalsobe
requestedandsubmittedatanyCitizenAdviceandInformationCentre(OficinadeAtenciónCiudadana)oftheBarcelonaCityCouncil:https://w110.bcn.cat/portal/site/Ajuntament/...
2. AnyonewhohasaNIE(NúmerodeIdentificacióndeExtranjeros)andanelectroniccertificatealsohastheoptionofsubmittingthedeclarationformonlineatthewebsiteoftheInstitutoNacionaldeEstadística(INE):https://sede.ine.gob.es.
• ThoseofuswhoarenotyetregisteredasresidentsintheBarcelonaCityCouncilpadrón
1. Needtoregisterasresidentsinthepadrónhttps://w30.bcn.cat/APPS/portaltramits/portal/channel/default.html?&stpid=20060001287&channel=6&mostrar_descLarga=0bythe30ofDecember,bypresentingadocumentprovingouraddressatanyCitizenAdviceandInformationCentre(OficinadeAtenciónCiudadana).
2. Oncewe’veregisteredinthepadrón,wecanthenfillinandsubmitthedeclarationform(modeloDFA)attheCitizenAdviceandInformationCentre.
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