UK expats blame slow mail for kiboshing chance to cast EU vote

General view of the European parliament ahead of the EU elections in Brussels, Belgium, May 22 2019. Picture: REUTERS/YVES HERMAN

Europeans go to the polls on May 23-26 to elect members of the European parliament. Britain will vote on Thursday, and Britons living abroad who registered in advance for a postal vote must have returned their ballot papers by then. Sharpe and her partner received their ballot papers only on Tuesday even though they were posted via Royal Mail on May 10. Instead she paid 370 Danish kroner to send the ballot back by courier, she said.In France, numerous British expats took to social media too to complain about being denied an opportunity to vote in the election because of delays to receiving their postal ballot.

The BBC reported earlier on Wednesday that British expats living in France had encountered similar problems because some local councils in the UK had used a postal service called Adare, rather than Royal Mail.About 785,000 British citizens live in other EU countries, according to the latest Eurostat data.

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