In Lviv, migrants from Crimea and Donbass demanded the right to vote in elections
Yesterday in Lvov, about fifty migrants from Crimea and Donbass defended their right to vote in the elections.
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Participants of the action for the right of displaced people to vote in elections gathered near the monument to Taras Shevchenko. The posters bore the words “My right to vote has been taken away. What right will I be deprived of next?”, “Registration is not a sentence, but an opportunity,” “The Silence of the Lambs,” reads the message.
“I’ve been living in Lvov for three years now,” said Crimea SOS activist Enver Bekirov. “I also want to take part in the discussion about what the playground should be like, where my children go, what the school they attend should be like, but I don’t have the right to vote.” He recalled that three bills were proposed to parliament for consideration, which relate to the right of displaced people to participate in voting, but they have not yet been considered.
“When the next elections are held, we want us to be able to cast our vote, like all citizens of Ukraine,” emphasized a participant in the action, Crimean Yuri Ilchenko, who spent 11 months in a Simferopol pre-trial detention center due to FSB accusations of extremism.
According to the Ministry of Social Policy, about 1,7 million internally displaced persons from Crimea and Donbass are registered in Ukraine. However, they did not have the right to vote in the next local elections, in October 2015. They are also de facto limited in their right to vote in parliamentary elections, during which they can vote in multi-member constituencies but cannot vote in majoritarian constituencies.
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