Following the fall of the Rutte Cabinet there will be new parliamentary elections on 12 September 2012. Migrants and refugees who have acquired the Dutch nationality are allowed to vote in these elections. In this fact sheet we give and overview of the right of European Union (EU) citizens to vote in the EU and the right to vote in the Netherlands of Dutch nationals, EU citizens in the Netherlands and third-country nationals in the Netherlands, and the right of third-country nationals to vote in EU countries. This fact sheet covers the right to vote in municipal elections, elections for the European Parliament and elections for the national parliament of a particular country...The data in this fact sheet about the rights of third-party nationals to vote in the EU is from the database of the MIPEX...
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FORUM: Voting rights in Europe fact sheet
Thomas Huddleston
Policy Analyst, Migration Policy Group
Thomas Huddleston is a policy analyst at the Migration Policy Group, a European think-and-do-tank. He coordinates MPG’s research for European cooperation on national integration policies, including the second and third editions of the Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX) (published in February 2011) and the third edition of the European Commission’s Handbook on Integration.
