DOMESTIC. In order to maintain "equal value" and "human rights" should be people from the Third World who are staying illegally in Sweden have the right to vote in the Swedish elections. It writes a left activist and law student in Aftonbladet debate.
Left activist Tobias Lagerfeldt, who is a volunteer organization "Refugees Welcome", referring to the politicians in 2010 changed the constitution so that "citizens" was replaced with "everyone" who are on Swedish territory.
Therefore, asylum seekers and immigrants from third world countries who are illegally in Sweden even though they had rejected his application for a residence permit have the right to vote in the Swedish elections, he notes.
"If we are serious about human equality, it is our obligation to include asylum seekers and undocumented migrants in the democratic community and give them the right to vote in elections. Let me recall that just a little over a hundred years ago, the idea that women should get vote no one laughed, "writes Lagerfeldt in Aftonbladet.
The idea of allowing illegal immigrants to vote in the Swedish elections is not new, but was put forward by the newspaper Dagens Nyheter in an anonymous editorial in March 2013, shortly after Peter Wolodarski taken over the role as executive editor of the left-liberal newspaper.
"It might not be citizenship - which is given as a gift ny nation - that give the right to democratic participation. Perhaps it is rather the legal relationship that inevitably established between a human and the political system, she is currently subject "wrote Bonnier magazine then.
DN during the 60s and 70s, the media platform that had the most decisive influence on transforming Sweden into a multicultural society.
Yes, let the whole world vote in a society. That will surely work.