Belarus, Russia introduce equal electoral rights for their citizens
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The protocol provides for the possibility, on a reciprocal basis, for Belarusian and Russian citizens permanently residing in the territory of the other state to participate in local elections - to vote and be elected to local self-government bodies.

Other source : https://eng.belta.by/president/view/belarus-russia-introduce-equal-electoral-rights-for-their-citizens-166227-2025

You can be a permanent resident of multiple countries, but e.g. Canada will require you to have lived in Canada for 730 days in the last 5 years to keep your status of a permanent citizen.
To be registered as permanently living somewhere, you have to pay the local taxes, and prove that you have a residence there, as well as other proofs probably.
Seems like an interesting step to take.

  • knfrmity@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    12 days ago

    This is huge, as most countries only allow citizens to vote.

    I found the “rescue democracy” rhetoric around the recent German election laughable, in part because a whole 15% of the working and income tax paying population is simply excluded from voting. Of course this has its material reasons, and is quite important to protect the class interests of the capitalists.

  • pcalau12i@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Meanwhile my state the people overwhelmingly voted to remove the right to vote as a guaranteed right even to every citizen.

    • JustVik@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      11 days ago

      Lukashenko never allow complette unification, only if he becomes the President. He is good, but a little bit too smart for complete unification. :) (No offense intended.)

      • Jin008@lemmygrad.ml
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        10 days ago

        I’ve heard that Lukashenko is thought to be a crypto-communist type? I’m clueless, so if you have any reading material about Lukashenko could you post it here?

        • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
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          9 days ago

          I don’t think he’s ideologically communist, but i think like many older people in Belarus and Russia he has a certain nostalgia for the Soviet times and recognizes that many things were actually really good about the socialist system. More than anything else i think he’s a patriot, which in his view aligns with pro-Soviet views.