Scotland Political Leaders Allow 16-Year-Olds to Vote and Want to Give Vote to Refugees, Too

Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, Wiki


The Scottish government is considering allowing refugees and non-EU citizens to vote in local and Scottish parliament elections. This would mean anyone granted asylum or a visa to live in Scotland would be able to vote. Scotland has led the way internationally by lowering the voting age to 16. Leaders say that linking citizenship to the right to vote is undemocratic. [Keep your eye on the ball, folks. These people are not stupid, but they think we are. What they really want is a one-world government without sovereign nations. It has nothing to do with being undemocratic.] -GEG

The Scottish government is considering allowing refugees and non-EU citizens to vote in local and Scottish parliament elections.

Holyrood was granted new powers over taxation and the running of elections by Westminster in 2016 and the SNP minority government is keen to make major changes that will set it apart from the rest of the UK.

A public consultation launched last month suggested extending the voting franchise to “everyone legally resident in Scotland”.

This would mean anyone granted asylum or a visa to live in Scotland would be able to vote in the country’s regional parliament and local council elections – including refugees and non-EU or non-Commonwealth citizens.

The extension of the franchise would not include Westminster elections as these are still controlled by the Government in London.

The Scottish minister for parliamentary business, Joe FitzPatrick, said: “The Scottish government is committed to ensuring access to democratic participation for all citizens. Scotland has led the way internationally by lowering the voting age to 16.

“We now seek to extend the opportunity to vote to all who are legally resident in Scotland. It seems only fair that those who have the right to live here, whether from EU countries or elsewhere, have the right to vote.”

He said there was a “view” that the current rules on suffrage did not reflect modern Scotland and “that linking citizenship with the right to vote is undemocratic”.

“As citizens from a very wide range of countries come to live and work in Scotland, it can be considered discriminatory to deny the right to vote to resident immigrants who are neither EU nor Commonwealth citizens”, he added.

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Sovereign Mary
Sovereign Mary
6 years ago

Scotland is allowing 16 year old’s to vote and now some of its leaders wish to allow refugees and non-EU citizens to vote in local and Scottish parliament elections.
Where’s is William Wallace when you absolutely need him?

Karl McGaugh
Karl McGaugh
6 years ago

Scottland is throwing it’s own citizens into the gutter to promote a foreign invasion. Money power is behind this and similar politics all over western civilization. Elite money grubbers should not have the power to change voting laws or immigration law. This should require a constitutional amendment.