PoliticalPolitical ParticipationParticipation

Working Group IWorking Group I

Innsbruck-ADICEInnsbruck-ADICE

9/11/079/11/07

Right to voteRight to vote

Right to vote exclusively reserved to French citizens (except for local elections and the european parlementary)

Foreign residents can be elected in school councils, labor unions, social security councils, associate in the mayor council (e.g. City of Mons-en-Baroeul, 1986)

Right to voteRight to vote

Right of foreign residents to vote

Public and political debate since 25 years

Has been proposed but never adopted

Renewal Today after the 2005 riots, mainly with local initiative

(e.g. « votation citoyenne by the L.D.H)

ConstitutionConstitution

Constitution of 1958« Are electors, in the conditions

determined by the law, all the national french adults of both sex, enjoying their civic and political rights »

The universal suffrage always rejected foreign vote

Political rights and Political rights and integrationintegration

« To exist, is to exist politicaly » A. Sayad6000 local associations of migrants, but notwell represented & not often consulted

Political reaffirmation of young migrants thanks to local associations (e.g. collectif des sans papiers)

Governmental bodyHaut Conseil à l’intégration

Committee for refugiesCommittee for refugies

Public organizations: OFPRA (French office for the

protection of refugees and stateless) ANAEM: National Agency for the

welcome of foreigners and migrations

Local and active organization: France Terre d’Asile

Merci / Danke Merci / Danke

Grazie / GraciasGrazie / Gracias