“The research results show that about 60 percent have said that they are really preparing to participate in the referendum. If we look at how many are ready to participate and how many are still considering joining and participating, it is really a considerable percentage and reaches almost 80 percent,” Marius Gurskas, head of the Government’s Strategic Communication Department, told LRT radio on Tuesday.
On May 12 of next year, together with the first round of the presidential elections, a mandatory referendum on the legalization of multiple citizenship will be held. In order for the ban on dual citizenship to be deleted from the Constitution, more than half of the citizens with the right to vote must vote for it.
Dalia Asanavičiūtė, the chairwoman of the working group that prepared the referendum initiative, has said that it would take approximately 1.1 million. citizens of Lithuania.
In 2019, with the presidential elections, a referendum was already held, which aimed to expand the possibilities of dual citizenship, but then there were not enough votes to adopt such a provision.
Those who emigrated after the restoration of independence on March 11, 1990, currently, with some exceptions, cannot have dual citizenship.
The Constitutional Court has clarified that only by amending the Constitution through a referendum can the possibility of having dual citizenship be opened to citizens of Lithuania who acquired the citizenship of other countries after the restoration of independence.
Preparations for the multiple citizenship referendum and other issues relevant to Lithuanians abroad will be discussed these days by the Commission of the Seimas and the World Lithuanian Community.
#Research #percent #participate #years #citizenship #referendum #population
2024-08-22 16:00:56
