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The government submitted to the Parliament's Constitutional Revision Committee on Wednesday the proposal for granting overseas Greeks the right to vote from their country of residence.

A cross-party committee discussing ruling New Democracy's initiative to grant full voting rights to diaspora Greeks reached a consensus, Interior Minister  Takis Theodorikakos announced on Tuesday evening.

Lawmakers agreed that the vote will count towards the overall election result and that diaspora Greeks will be able to select among 15 (previously 12) candidates from a state list.

Now that the topic of the voting rights of diaspora Greeks has been extensively debated between the country's political leaders, one thing is clear: Facilitating the electoral participation of Greeks living in foreign countries would not lead to an expansion of the electoral body.

The deadline for Romanians abroad to enroll for the voting in the presidential elections in November expired on Sunday, thus 38,944 electors chose to vote at the pooling stations, whereas 41,003 electors chose to vote by mail, according to the www.votstrainatate.ro website, opened by the Permanent Electoral Authority (AEP).

The Permanent Electoral Authority (AEP) has informed that as many as 1,420 Romanian voters have signed up with www.votstrainatate.ro to be able to cast ballots while abroad from the moment of the start of registrations process on July 28, 2019, 12:00hrs.

Romania's Foreign Minister Ramona Manescu is urging Romanians abroad to register with the voting lists, showing that taking space under lease for polling stations that were very crowded in the May 26 European elections is a working option.

The Senate plenary meeting adopted on Monday the draft law for amending some normative acts on the voting abroad in the presidential elections. The document was adopted by 75 votes "in favour" and nine abstentions.

Prime Minister Viorica Dancila stated on Thursday that the Government is working on an advanced study, a package of measures regarding the improvement of the electoral process, showing that the Gov't takes into account that the voting be carried out on several days, but also considers the extension of the vote by mail.

Bucharest, May 25 /Agerpres/ - The total number of people enrolled in the Electoral Register is 18,987,675 persons, of which 18,835 have their voting rights revoked.

The number of citizens aged between 18 and 25 who were eligible to vote in the last elections was around 9 million. This number will surpass 10 million with those who will vote for the first time in the elections on June 24.