the National Government is promoting a bill that aims to Argentines living in other countries choose their legislators, and who have been baptized "Province 25". reach port of the initiative, in short, over a million Argentines living abroad may vote and be elected to Congress.
In its foundations, the program launched by the Ministry of Interior, to strengthen the links between the State and the Argentine citizens who are acting as emigrants.
In itself, the idea is a major breakthrough in of law, and is comparable to what in fact already done by other states such as Italy, whose citizens living abroad have the possibility to elect their legislators to represent them in Parliament in elections such as those carried out past year.
The existence of the "Province 25" became public knowledge on Friday 16 Last March, when it was published the resolution 452/2007 in the Official Gazette. The preamble to the regulations, states that seeks to promote democratic participation of citizens emigrated while guarding their rights. It also explains that the program ensures the social, political and labor "of Argentine immigrants, who" provided "the procedures necessary to vote, to adopt the children of Argentine citizens born abroad and obtain and renew documentation.
The proposal includes the whole of Argentine residents outside and enables institutional reach similar to that of citizens living within the territory.
But not only will address the civil rights of citizens living abroad, as explained in the publication of the Gazette through the program will be met further procedures related to the return of Argentines to the country, social security, investment promotion, access to credit, sending money from abroad for the development of productive projects, financial support to family, buying property and approval of certificates, among other things.
To better analyze the contents of a government program for its nationals living abroad, attached to Resolution No. 452/2007 of the Argentine Interior Ministry, which created the program "Province 25" having "designed to strengthen ties and communication of the Argentine with Argentine living abroad, assisting in all matters relating to the exercise of political rights, with the creation of opportunities for sectoral representation and optimization the steps and procedures that apply to this Ministry. "
comparison, the Chilean government has no program or ministerial decision of this nature. So far, the Concertación governments have only presented proposals or short-range projects that conflict even in legal terms. projects is how to vote abroad, end up trapped in the legislative chambers without giving effect to a law that gives a definitive, comprehensive and rectify that right exercise, while the Argentines abroad borne since 1993 and Peruvian emigrants from the previous decade.
Region XIV Chilenos en el Exterior, was only a virtual creation of the government of Lagos, without any legal basis, whose name ended awarded to the new Los RÃos Region.
On the representation of Chileans abroad in the National Congress, there is full agreement of both parliamentarians and politicians from government and opposition, not to establish such a right.
It is worth adding that in our country there is a program or presidential or ministerial decision of this magnitude. Even the creation of DICOEX-Address for Chilean Community Abroad, "is vague in its goals, missions and goals. Moreover, in the beginning had no legal recognition. Hence the ignorance that some Chilean consuls made their activities, giving little support to the registration of Chileans abroad during the years 2003 and 2004.
deliver This document attached, intended to serve as reading and analysis those Chileans abroad who struggle for the inclusion of about a million compatriots in the homeland, in their civil, political, social and cultural rights.
Rights that our Federation has been raising and upholding the regulation of its financial year since 1996, the disclosure has had significant influence in the struggle that Migrants from neighboring countries have given recognition ciudadadanos their rights and those who envy healthy.
This document should also serve the Chilean government, in its various bodies, to open at the highest level, a space for citizen participation with Chile's foreign community - who must also display a regular organizational effort, pluralistic, democratic, representative and independent of political parties and government - and work out a quality program that we discussed, applied the reality of Chileans living in different latitudes.
Since this is not to have one more document, as the Government and all political parties in Chile, have received from the Chilean community in sufficient foreign input and advice from France, Spain, Peru, Canada, Australia, USA, Brazil, Sweden, Italy, Switzerland, Argentina, among others, and have been unable to develop a state policy on the matter.
Finally, as concluded "III International Conference Chilenos en el Exterior" held in the city of La Plata, Argentina, in December 1997 "the application of these civil rights is the beginning of the recognition of equal political rights and allow us to develop them - those who reside abroad - have a degree of natural relationship with the real sources of power: legislative and executive. "
"In turn, require the parties necessarily develop policy proposals to the community living abroad."
We believe this is the commitment and the challenge of recovery of "floating province migration" to bring Juan B. Alberdi, who masterfully inspired ideas of the migrants from the distant country, which after 40 year absence returned to the place where he was born. And that is why we must fight from " where the land ends " our beloved and longed Chile, or from the farthest reaches of the world, and involved an integral part of our country, recognizing them as citizens with equal rights and freedom validly exercised, demanding now our exercise of the right to vote in Chile without regardless of place of residence that we have, considering only the fact that Chileans.
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OF FedACH
March 2007
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