{"id":405664,"date":"2024-11-19T18:25:17","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T17:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/11\/19\/candidarsi-con-partito-senza-cittadinanza\/"},"modified":"2024-11-22T16:13:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T15:13:04","slug":"expatriates-eligible-to-run-for-office-with-eu-national-parties-citizenship-not-required","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/11\/19\/expatriates-eligible-to-run-for-office-with-eu-national-parties-citizenship-not-required\/","title":{"rendered":"Expatriates eligible to run for office with EU national parties, citizenship not required"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – You can be an active politician and run for office in a party of an EU member country even if you do not have citizenship of that country, but you are only a resident.<\/strong> What does that mean? That if a Belgian wants to run in elections for the German Social Democratic Party, he can do so. As long as it is a local or European election, the only ones for which one can run as a “foreigner”. This was\u00a0made clear by the EU Court of Justice, which, in a ruling, automatically rebukes\u00a0Poland and the Czech Republic for policies that discriminate against other European citizens.<\/p>\n

Luxembourg judges ruled that\u00a0denying Union citizens who reside in a member state without being its nationals the right to become members of a political party violates Union law<\/strong>. Specifically, it violates Article 22 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU<\/a>, which explicitly recognizes the possibility of election and eligibility without a citizenship requirement. The mere fact of being an EU citizen automatically confers rights.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Nationalistic or patriotic logic and narratives do not apply under EU law. Lacked or prohibited membership in political parties “cannot be justified on grounds of respect for national identity,” clarifies the ruling<\/a> pronounced by the Court of Justice of the EU. Moreover, the lack of access to active politics goes against the foundations of the European Union. Political parties, it is reminded, “play a fundamental role in the system of representative democracy, which concretizes the value of democracy on which the Union is notably founded.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The EU Court of Justice clarifies that for all EU citizens there are automatically recognized rights. Just being resident in another member country is enough to be voted in the European and municipal elections<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":366908,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25681],"tags":[25746,25816,29728,27082,26442,29729,29730,26130],"class_list":["post-405664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-rights-citizens-en","tag-citizenship-en","tag-court-of-justice-en","tag-participation-politics-en","tag-parties-politicians-en","tag-rights-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405664"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405763,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405664\/revisions\/405763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}