Children of displaced mothers to gain voting rights in local elections from 2029

Children of mothers who are registered as displaced persons will be allowed to vote for the local representatives-in-exile of the places where their mothers are registered at the next local elections in 2029, President Nikos Christodoulides announced on Friday.

“As is currently the case for those displaced by patrilineal descent, today we give the same right to those displaced by matrilineal descent,” he said ahead of the day’s cabinet meeting.

The proposal was submitted to...