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"While residency requirements are not incompatible a priori with the principal of universal suffrage, it is not acceptable to limit the right to be elected to only those citizens who have resided in a country, region or constituency for an extensively long period of time. "
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CoE (Venice Commission): Report on Electoral Law and Electoral Administration in Europe, para.V.77

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