Re: One EU demand too far!

On Jan 31, 12:47 pm, "Peteris Cedrinš (Peteris Cedrins)"
<cedr...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
santak...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Jan 31, 10:08 am, "Henry Alminas" <halmi...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Lithuanian local elections are about
to begin.  Fine and dandy - that.  What
is unacceptable, however, is that
Lithuania-resident non-citizens are
permitted to be candidates for local
elections.  As a result some 25 candidates
falling into this category are up for
elections.  Almost all of them are russkies
along with a couple Poles.

Since people have problems differentiating
between the Baltic countries let me just
mention that unlike Estonia and Latvia
Lithuania granted citizenship to all - across
the board (also a serious mistake).  Thus
those russkies who do not have it refused
to accept it - hoping, no doubt, that
the russkie forces would return very
soon.

How the hell can the country permit these
scum to be candidates - for anything but
a ticket back to "matushka"?

Shame!!

Best - - Henry

Lucky I understand your Eastern European sense of humour (lots of
hyprbole, sarcasm) otherwise I'd think you were serious.

There are enough people all over the world just waiting for a chance
to throw *** at Lithuania - why give them ammo?  We are in the EU and
we have to abide by EU rules.  (Yeah, I know, you'd rather be a US
territory like Iraq.)

People who live in Lithuania have certain rights that people living
abroad don't have.  Live with it.

EU citizens have the right to participate in elections and be
candidates -- non-EU citizens do not, and Russians are not EU
citizens. Latvia does not permit non-citizens to vote or stand for
election -- unless they are citizens of an EU country. So don't blame
the EU, Henry.

Viso gero,
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We are talking about LOCAL GOVERNMENT elections. Do I err in
believing there is an EU recommendation (if not regulation) saying
that all residents (whether they be citoyens or not) should be allowed
to participate in local government elections?

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