I’m not sure how a thread on citzenship came to be an apparently useful discussion on prostate cancer? There must be a link somewhere…
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Just a thought.. have those people who gained French Nationality got themselves on the Voting List at their Mairie???
There’s still time… but be quick… 
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Is that the same as being registered to vote? I thought that happened pretty well automatically for people who are naturalised or whatever… Perhaps its one of those "sometimes it is and sometimes it isn’t situations?
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My son simply received a voting card as he did not even know his nationality had been granted and had to ask the Mairie if a mistake had been made sending him the card, but no, it was legit and this was early 2025
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I think it’s our Prefecture which recently sent out a blurb… reminding folk of the deadlines to get on the electoral roll at one’s Mairie. Or else it was in the News…
Better to check one’s situation 
than find out toooo late
"Pour voter en France, il ne suffit pas d’avoir la nationalité française ou d’être majeur : il faut être inscrit sur les listes électorales . "
https://www.info.gouv.fr/actualite/municipales-2026-comment-s-inscrire-sur-les-listes-electorales
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He was right to ask.. and not risk missing the chance to vote !
Bien sûr! And already on list in new commune as was first thing I did after we signed Acte de Vente.
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Well done!
Hi @Badger,
I presume you are referring to Brexit. Am I right in assuming from your comment that it is easier for a person with an passport from an EU member state to get French nationality?
M.
surely, he’s saying it’s easier to vote in French elections if one is european?? (which of course we Brits aren’t any longer due to Brexit 
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I can’t figure out what he is saying. Only French citizens can vote in French elections, though EU citizens can vote in EU elections, which I find kind of odd. I did it myself just for the experience 2 years ago as an IT voting for Renaissance.
Hmmm. ~Before Brexit, UK folk living in France (but not French Nationality) were classed as European and could vote in the French local Municipal Elections. Indeed they could stand for election in the local Municipal Elections… and have some say in the running of the Commune’s affairs… only thing they could not do was be elected as Maire (/Adjoint?) of their commune…
Nowadays, we Brits are classed as third-world (no longer european) and cannot vote in France at all… aaargh.. we can have no say in what’s what in France,
not nuffink.
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@Mike313 & @Nunthewiser - I meant what @Stella said.
I used to have some voting rights here (local & EU) but sadly they were taken away by stupidity.
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Brexit didn’t remove GB from the continent of Europe (although I’m sure frog-faced Farage would have liked it if it had), so British people are still European - in the same way the Swiss and the Norwegians, for example, are.
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This could turn into crit’air… you know perfectly well what the situation is..
UK put 2 fingers up to the European Union and France replied “on yr bike then, no special treatment for you, you’re nuffink”
UK told lies and thoroughly insulted the European union… we Brits already settled in France were lucky to be treated as kindly as we have been by La France.
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Yes, but my point is that you said Brits are no longer European. We are. We’re just no longer members of the EU. But we are still European. Farage and Johnson couldn’t take that away from us. 
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I have some difficult translation to finish before tomorrow morning.. so I’ll leave the Crit’Air aspect to others
“Europe
Are we part of it? The geographers say yes . Many Britons doubt it, for the second of those three interlocking meanings is, as Collins English Dictionary tells us, “the continent of Europe, except for the British Isles.” (One wonders where that leaves Ireland.) This is a familiar usage.”
No, third country citizens. Very different from Third World which is a bit pejorative these days, better to say developing countries.
1 country = french citizens ( obviously varies by EU country)
2 country = european citizens
3 country = everyone else
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No difference, and same criteria
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I’m rather relieved to know I am not a third-world person