Thursday 7 April 2011

Only 211 foreigners ready to vote in local elections

ALGECIRAS (Agencies) The electoral roll was published recently, announcing the residents who are elegible to vote in the coming local elections of May 22. The list shows only 211 foreigners, against 87,333 Spanish residents in the municipality. According to local sources, this could mean that most of the over 11,500 included in the last census had not registered at the Town Hall. Residents of non-Spanish nationality represented over 100 different countries and 10% of the population in Algeciras. The same sources report that many foreigners have left the town as a result of the crisis, a fact not registered by the census of 2001.

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