On application for or collection of your e-Residence card/new identity card at the Department for Citizenship and Expatriate Affairs, you may now enrol on the European Parliament Electoral Register. By doing so you become eligible to vote in next year’s European Parliament elections, further advancing your EU civil rights to equal treatment. Alternatively, you can also enrol at the Electoral Commission/Identity Card Office at Evans Building, Valletta or at the Identity Card Office in Victoria. For this purpose, your attention is drawn to the non-Maltese EU voter enrolment form for the European Parliament Electoral Register — www.electoral.gov.mt/
getresource.aspx?id=83 —. Please note that being enrolled on the local council Electoral Register does not necessarily mean that you are likewise enrolled on the European Parliament one.
Comparative scrutiny of the October 2010 European Union/Parliament and local council electoral registers discloses that of the 24,899 non-Maltese EU citizens enrolled on the local council Electoral Register, only 3,758 (15 per cent) are enrolled on the European Parliament one. The 21,141 disenfranchised non-Maltese EU citizens constitute six per cent of the entire eligible European Parliament electorate in Malta and Gozo.