{"id":2846,"date":"2013-01-23T17:42:07","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T17:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.aegee.org\/?p=2846"},"modified":"2013-01-23T17:54:03","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T17:54:03","slug":"erasmus-you-really-cannot-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.aegee.org\/erasmus-you-really-cannot-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Erasmus: You really cannot vote!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Italian Erasmus students and young people abroad for the General Election 2013: the final decision of the Consiglio dei Ministri<\/em> and the surprising reaction of the Italian Erasmus students.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Council of Ministers held yesterday a meeting with a deep evaluation about the institution of the vote for the Italian General Election 2013 while being\u00a0abroad for Italian students involved in the Erasmus Programme. During the debate some \u201cinsuperable difficulties\u201d (as it was written in the official communication<\/a>) emerged: the time for changing a constitutional law is too short. The Council of Ministers wishes for the resolution of this important issue in the future, and it will have to be the new elected Parliament to include the necessary changes in a future electoral reform. Creating an ad hoc<\/em> decree for the Erasmus students has been discarded, as the Council of Ministers considers that this exceptional measure would be a privilege discriminating other students, interns and workers abroad, and therefore could be unconstitutional.<\/p>\n

We consider that what should be revised is the constitutionality of the\u00a0Italian Law 232 – 31\/12\/2012<\/a>, which provides only certain collectives with the right to vote \u00a0while being abroad and not been registered in the AIRE registry. The law now allows to vote only the:<\/p>\n