Ejercicio de derecho al voto de personas extranjeras con residencia legal y mayor a cinco años en la ciudad de Cuenca de los tres últimos procesos electorales de los años 2017, 2018 y 2019

Abstract

In Ecuador, since the enactment of the 2008 Constitution, foreign people enjoy political rights, which have been called participation rights; among the participation rights benefits foreigners have is the right to vote. This research aims to determine the legal status of foreign people who have been living in Ecuador for more than five years so that they can wield the right to vote. The regulation of this – the right to vote – for them (foreigners) is necessary for since their rights and interests are at stake. That is why there must be an integration of them in the decision-making of the country in which they live. This is because not only native or local people have interest in state affairs but also foreign ones. In order to exercise the right to vote, people from other countries than Ecuador must comply with the requirements regulated in the Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador, Regulations for the Organization, Preparation and Dissemination of the Electoral Registry and its Claim at the Administrative Headquarters and the Organic Law of Human Mobility.