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	Gibraltar Official Website gibraltar.gi - History & Politics
		Gibraltar was not incorporated as a borough in the English sense, no Charter of Privileges was granted to the municipality, no aldermen were created, and the City Council was presided over by a Chairman, not a Mayor.
		Thus in December 1987 Gibraltar airport was excluded from a measure of EC law on civil aviation unless the Gibraltarians accepted joint control of their airport with Spain.
		Previously Gibraltar had become liable to pay pensions to the Spanish workers who were employed in Gibraltar before Franco closed the border, even though they had not made pension contributions during sixteen years of a closed frontier.
	www.gibraltar.gi /history (2935 words)

	Electoral Commission Recommendation...: 28 Apr 2003: House of Commons debates (TheyWorkForYou.com)
		All these amendments are concerned with provisions in the Bill relating to the role of the Government of Gibraltar in the preparation for, and conduct of, the European Parliament elections in Gibraltar.
		Gibraltar will use its own legislation to enable it to pay for the latter expenses, so the amendment removes from clause 22 any provision for this purpose, as it is no longer necessary.
		It is a pleasure to return to the subject of Gibraltar and the inadequacies of the British Government in recognising the fact that Gibraltar is part of the territory of the European Union.
	www.theyworkforyou.com /debates/?id=2003-04-28.83.0 (6145 words)

	Politics of Gibraltar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gibraltar is part of Europe, having been the only British Overseas Territory which joined the EC under the British Treaty of Accession (1973).
		Gibraltar political activity takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic dependency, whereby the Chief Minister is the head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system.
		Gibraltar is an overseas territory of the United Kingdom, with full internal self-government under its 1969 Constitution.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Gibraltar (2695 words)

	Official Government of Gibraltar London website
		Elections were held in January 1984 and eight members of the Gibraltar Labour Party/Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights and 7 of the Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party were elected.
		The Court later ruled, on the 29 June 1993, that Gibraltar’s case was inadmissible on the grounds that the dispute between the UK and Spain, as evidenced by the bilateral airport agreement, represented an obstacle of an objective nature to the implementation of the EC Directives having regard to their aims.
		Soon after the elections, in which the Gibraltar Social Democrats led by Peter Caruana QC were returned to office for a second term, an agreement acceptable to the Gibraltar Government was reached between the British and Spanish governments which enabled the unblocking of a number of European Union issues.
	www.gibraltar.gov.uk /int/political.asp (8198 words)

	Gibraltar travel guide - Wikitravel
		Gibraltar [1], colloquially known as The Rock, is an overseas territory of United Kingdom on the southern coast of Spain at the entrance to the Mediterranean sea.
		In 711 Tariq ibn Ziyad, the Muslim governor of Tangier, landed at Gibraltar to launch the Islamic invasion of the Iberian Peninsula.
		Strategically important, Gibraltar was ceded to Great Britain by Spain in the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht; the British garrison was formally declared a colony in 1830.
	wikitravel.org /en/Gibraltar (1258 words)

	The European Commission
		Spain does not contest that the UK is under the obligation to give residents of Gibraltar holders of UK passports the right to vote for the European Parliament nor the UK present practice of giving certain Commonwealth citizens resident in the UK the right to vote for the EP”.
		And Annex II to the 1976 Act on elections of representatives to the European Parliament, because it creates a 'combined electoral region' incorporating Gibraltar into an existing electoral region in England and Wales.
		elections have to be direct, universal, free and secret), there is no general principle of Community law according to which the electorate in European Parliament elections cannot be extended beyond EU citizens.
	www.gibnet.com /eurovote/eu_oct.htm (640 words)

	Green Party - Real Progress
		The 2004 European Parliament elections are a landmark elections for Gibraltarians.
		Gibraltar has been denied from ever having a vote in the European parliamentary elections, due to long standing wrangling over her sovereign status (see potted history of Gibraltar).
		The Green Party of England and Wales declares, unequivocally, its support for the self-determination of the people of Gibraltar, and their right to decide and settle their own style of democratic government within the framework of the European Convention on Human Rights.
	www.greenparty.org.uk /gibraltarpage (587 words)

	EU vote "The Matthews case" 1996
		In April 1994 she applied to be registered as a voter in the elections to the European parliament.
		She was told that under the terms of the EC Act on Direct Elections of 1976 Gibraltar was not included in the franchise for those elections.
		The applicant claimed that the absence of elections in Gibraltar to the European Parliament was in violation of her right to participate in elections to choose the legislature under Article 3 of Protocol No. 1 to the Convention.
	www.self-determination.gi /eu_vote_the_matthews_case_1996.htm (755 words)

	Gibraltar - A Special Case (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Gibraltar is situated at the southern tip of the Iberian peninsula and has a land mass of 5.83 Square Kilometres (much of which is the famous "Rock of Gibraltar" and a population of just over 27,000.
		Gibraltar was captured by a combined Anglo-Dutch fleet under Admiral Rooke during the war of the Spanish Succession, and British sovereignty over Gibraltar was formalised in 1713 by The Treaty of Utrecht.
		censed by the manner in which the wishes of the people of Gibraltar were being ignored, the Government of Gibraltar organised a further Referendum on 8th November 2002 in which the principle of shared sovereignty was rejected by an overwhelming 98.97% of the population.
	www.eurolegal.org /britpages/gibspecial.htm (434 words)

	The European Parliamentary Elections (Combined Region and Campaign Expenditure) (United Kingdom and Gibraltar) Order ...
		The existing electoral region in England and Wales which is to be combined with Gibraltar to form the combined region for the purposes of the European Parliament (Representation) Act 2003 is the South West electoral region[3].
		By virtue of the European Parliament (Representation) Act 2003 (the 2003 Act), Gibraltar is to be combined with one of the electoral regions in England and Wales to form a new electoral region for the purposes of European Parliamentary elections.
		Gibraltar third parties will also be able to become recognised third parties for the purposes of campaigning while a European Parliamentary general election is pending.
	www.opsi.gov.uk /si/si2004/20040366.htm (5489 words)

	Elections in Gibraltar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An election is a process in which a vote is held to elect candidates to an office.
		It is the mechanism by which a democracy fills elective offices in the legislature, and sometimes the executive and judiciary, and in which electorates choose local government officials.
		Elections take place roughly every four years, and 15 members are elected at each election, using partial block voting.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elections_in_Gibraltar (250 words)

	New Gibraltar Constitution 2002
		And whereas the people of Gibraltar have accepted the Constitution annexed to this order in an act of self-determination and Gibraltar can therefore be deemed to have attained the fullest possible measure of self- government.
		There shall be a Legislature for Gibraltar, which, subject to the provisions of this Chapter, shall consist of Her Majesty and the Parliament.
		A general election shall be held not later than three months after the issue of a Writ for a general election and a session of the Parliament shall be appointed to commence within thirty days of the date prescribed for polling at any such general election.
	www.self-determination.gi /gibraltar_constitution_2002.htm (10275 words)

	LDYS - Gibraltar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The demonstration held on Gibraltar on the 18th March, 2002 against Anglo-Spanish talks to share the sovereignty of the colony.
		That the future of Gibraltar must be freely and democratically decided by the people of Gibraltar in exercise of their right to self-determination.
		For the Government of the United Kingdom to enfranchise Gibraltar for elections to the European Parliament as decreed by the European Court of Human Rights in its ruling of February 1999, preferably by its own member or by voting with the South West region of England.
	www.ldys.org.uk /web/policy/gibraltar.html (348 words)

	The Liberal Party of Gibraltar
		You can also find the latest press releases issued by the Liberals in Gibraltar and by the official Opposition of Gibraltar of which we are a part.
		To achieve the decolonisation of Gibraltar through the principle of self-determination is a core political objective of the Liberal Party of Gibraltar.
		The Liberals in Gibraltar are part of the official Opposition.
	www.liberal.gi (237 words)

	EU Law Blog: Citizenship, the right to vote, Gibraltar & Aruba: Cases C-145/04 & C-300/04
		Spain disliked the United Kingdom's endeavors to comply with the Matthews judgment because the right to vote in Euro elections in Gibraltar was extended to "qualifying Commonwealth citizens" who are not United Kingdom Citizens and because Gibraltar was included in an existing electoral district in England.
		The Court finds that no provision of EU law defines precisely who can and who cannot vote in elections and notes certain instances in which EC law gives rights to persons who are not citizens of a member State.
		Yet there is a difference in treatment between the two: The latter has the right to vote and to stand as a candidate in elections to the European Parliament held in the Netherlands whereas the former has no such right.
	eulaw.typepad.com /eulawblog/2006/09/citizenship_the.html (656 words)

	Elections and Electoral Systems by Country
		The Center for Voting and Democracy is dedicated to fair elections where every vote counts and all voters are represented.
		Adam Carr's Electoral Archive has complete (ie, seat by seat) federal elections statistics from 1901 (federation) to the present, and statistics for all Australian state elections since 1990.
		National Electoral Committee has information in English on the Parliamentary Elections of 1995 and 1999, and the local elections of 1996, plus an overview of elections from 1989-1996.
	www.psr.keele.ac.uk /election.htm (1374 words)

	Government of GibraltarPress Office
		In their efforts to learn from local representatives about their views on the forthcoming elections the group held a meeting on Tuesday 11 May with local political representatives.
		The young people were able to learn from their guests about the relevance of these elections for Gibraltar and were able to put their questions and views to them.
		The group presented each speaker with a small booklet on the rights of every European Citizen as a token of appreciation and as a proof of their work on this matter.
	www.gibraltar.gov.gi /latest_news/press_releases/2004/106-2004.htm (263 words)

	Grand Slam - A Battle of Lost Opportunities
		The emergence of Bhutto in 1970 elections as the principal leader of the West Pakistan Wing once again ignited the 1965 controversy, but again the issue became a low key affair once Bhutto became the Prime Minister from 1971 to 1977.
		Operation Gibraltar conceived by the ISI91 as Gauhar has stated and perhaps by Akhtar Hussain Malik and/or other people and were in vogue since 1958 was approved by President Ayub in July 1965 and executed from 1st August 196592.
		It is a tragedy of Pakistani military history that the futile mudslinging matches between various mandarins and political opponents of Bhutto, in the process of pursuance and as part of a war of egos has clouded the true contribution of 12 Division at the strategic level in the 1965 War.
	www.defencejournal.com /2000/sept/grand-slam.htm (11101 words)

	Gibraltar: European Parliament Elections: 7 Nov 2001: Written answers (TheyWorkForYou.com)
		Whether British residents in Gibraltar will have the right to vote in the next election at the European Parliament.
		Her Majesty's Government are actively working to ensure Gibraltar's enfranchisement in time for the 2004 elections to the European Parliament.
		We unequivocally accept the obligation to give effect to the judgment of the ECHR and are continuing our efforts to this end.
	www.theyworkforyou.com /wrans/?id=2001-11-07a.32.0 (116 words)

	Department for Constitutional Affairs - Elections - EPR Newsletter
		However, these persons are not allowed to vote as well in the same elections in the State of which they are a national (i.e.
		Locality where the person is registered in the UK for the elections to the European Parliament in 2004.
		If the individual is also registered to vote in European Parliamentary elections in that ERO's area, the ERO should take whatever steps, if any, s/he thinks are necessary to ensure that the voter is aware that it is an offence to vote twice in those elections, even if they are voting in different countries.
	www.dca.gov.uk /elections/elegletter/letters/epr603.htm (1331 words)

	European Parliament elections 2004
		The first direct elections were held in 1979.
		Elections to the European Parliament will be held in all 25 EU Member States, between 10-13 June 2004, with 732 MEPs due to be elected.
		A study of attitudes towards elections for the European Parliament and London's Mayor and Assembly
	www.leeds.ac.uk /jmce/EPvote04.htm (364 words)

	DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE CONSIDERS SITUATIONS OF GIBRALTAR, CAYMAN ISLANDS
		Rejecting the principle of joint sovereignty by the United Kingdom and Spain, the Deputy Chief Minister of Gibraltar this morning stressed that the future political status of that Territory could only be the result of the exercise of its people of their inalienable right to self-determination, as the Special Committee on Decolonization continued its session.
		JIMMY URE OVIA (Papua New Guinea) asked why Gibraltar had declined the invitation to attend the negotiations between the United Kingdom and Spain, known as the “Brussels process”.
		OVIA (Papua New Guinea) said that the invitation for the Committee to visit Gibraltar was an issue to which Committee would return in the future.
	www.un.org /News/Press/docs/2003/gacol3084.doc.htm (878 words)

	Political Studies Association
		Election Manifestos - from 1945 for the three main parties.
		Devolved Legislature Elections 2003 - from the Electoral Commission.
		BBC Election 2003 - summaries of voting in Scottish, Welsh and local elections.
	www.psa.ac.uk /www/elections_UKall.asp (221 words)

	Bloc voting - Electowiki
		It was used in the Australian Senate from 1901 to 1948 (from 1918, this was preferential bloc voting), is widely used for local elections in the United Kingdom and is often used to elect the boards of directors of corporations.
		Partial block voting (or Limited-voting) involves each voter receiving fewer votes than the number of candidates to be elected.
		It is used for elections in Gibraltar, where each voter has 8 votes, and 15 seats are open for election: the usual result is that the most popular party wins 8 seats and forms the Gibraltar administration, while the second most popular wins 7 seats and forms the opposition.
	wiki.electorama.com /wiki/Bloc_voting (473 words)

	Iberianews - Gibraltar Museum Lectures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The fifth lecture in the 2006 series of Gibraltar Museum lectures, "Smoking in Gibraltar: adverse effects on the children when mothers smoke" by Professor Larry Sawchuk, University of Toronto, previously announced to take place on Monday 26
		July 2006 at 20:30 at the Gibraltar Museum.
		Alternatively, a free leaflet giving details of the series of lectures is available from the Gibraltar Museum, the John Mackintosh Hall reception and the offices of the Ministry for Heritage and Culture at 310 Main Street.
	www.iberianews.gi /Gibraltar_Museum_Lectures.html (173 words)

	MercoPress - Falklands-Malvinas & South Atlantic News
		The celebration was first started 13 years ago to mark the anniversary of the constitution and has developed into a popular event.
		The political rally at Casemates Square is addressed from a stage backed by a large Gibraltar flag and the slogan 'self Determination is democracy' was attended by representatives of the main political parties of the UK and was started off by William Serfaty from the SDGG, self determination for Gibraltar Group.
		He spoke of the successes of the group, including getting participation for Gibraltar in EU elections after a legal struggle where other members have this as a right from day one.
	www.falkland-malvinas.com /Detalle.asp?NUM=6411 (676 words)

	Gibraltar Elections 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		These pages will be constantly updated throughout the day and night, bringing you constantly updated information on the Gibraltar 2000 Elections.
		This displays a graph showing the total number of votes that have been cast throughout the day at all the polling stations at 2 hour intervals.
		Also shown are the number of votes cast at previous elections for comparison.
	www.gib.gi /election (143 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Latest News - Spain's Gibraltar EU elections case
		Spain has presented arguments in the European Union's high court against a British law that allows citizens of Gibraltar to vote in elections for the EU's parliament.
		Spain, which contests British rule over the territory on its southern coast, claims some Gibraltarians are not citizens of the EU and should not be allowed to vote for members of the European Parliament.
		Britain changed its laws in 2003 after the European Court of Human Rights ruled it had infringed Gibraltarians' democratic rights by preventing them from voting in European elections.
	news.scotsman.com /latest.cfm?id=744572005 (264 words)

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