A proposal to give the right to vote to those Greeks living overseas, and even allow them to serve as Deputies in Parliament, is likely to receive unanimous support, reports say. The New Democracy Party-led government made the proposals, which would amend the nation's election laws, and leave it to parliament to enact legislation to determine the capacity in which ex-pat Deputies would serve.
All parliamentary parties have expressed, one way or the other, their cautious support to the governmental amendment and it remains to be seen whether this historic vote will garner the absolute unanimous support in the House; something extremely rare in the country’s turbulent political history.
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