米ＮＹ市、外国人にも参政権　主要都市で初

【ニューヨークＡＦＰ＝時事】米ニューヨーク市議会は９日、市民権を持たない永住者らに地方選挙での投票権を与える条例案を賛成３３、反対１４、棄権２で可決した。米主要都市では初。（写真は資料写真）
　ニューヨーク市に住む合法的な永住者や就労許可を得ている外国人が対象。同市の人口約９００万人のうち約１００万人の外国人が影響を受ける。
　民主党の市議会議員や移民支援団体は、今回の画期的な決定を歓迎している。
　間もなく任期満了を迎える民主党のビル・デブラシオ市長は、外国人に投票を認める法的権限が市にあるかについて疑問を呈しつつも反対しない意向を明らかにしていた。
　２０２３年初頭から施行される可能性がある。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】

〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2021/12/13-13:08）

New York City Council on Thursday passed legislation to allow immigrants who are not US citizens to vote in local elections, the first major city in the United States to do so.
The local law, adopted by 33 votes to 14, with two abstentions, will allow lawful permanent residents and persons authorized to work in the United States who reside in New York and do not have US citizenship to participate in municipal elections.
Several elected Democrats on the city council welcomed the historic vote, as did associations for the defense of immigrant rights.
The measure could affect around a million foreigners living in New York, which has some nine million residents.
The cultural and economic capital of the eastern seaboard is a Democratic and progressive bastion, and adopted the measure at a time when debates on immigration and voting rights are raging in the country.
Several US states have taken steps in recent months to use unfounded allegations of fraud in the 2020 presidential election to pass laws which detractors say are aimed at restricting minority voting rights.
At the end of his term, New York's Democratic mayor Bill de Blasio himself questioned the city's legal authority to allow the vote of foreigners, while insisting that he would not oppose it.
The measure could take effect from early 2023.