DIASPORAS REPRESENTED IN THEIR HOME COUNTRY PARLIAMENTS https://www.overseasvotefoundation.org/files/Diasporas_Represented_in_their_Home_Country_Parliaments.pdf
Prepared by Andy Sundberg based on information from “Voting from Abroad”:
The International IDEA. Handbook, 2007.
Eleven countries — four in Europe (Croatia, France, Italy and Portugal), four in Africa (Algeria, Angola, Cape Verde and Mozambique) and three in the Americas (Colombia, Ecuador and Panama)—not only allow their citizens abroad to participate actively in some electoral processes, but also enable them to elect their own representatives to the national legislature. This was also formerly the case in the Cook Islands, but the ‘external seat’ there was abolished in 2003.
This practice is clearly aimed at reinforcing external voters’ link with the national political community, enabling promotion of their own legislative agenda and direct intervention from an overseas viewpoint in the debates and processes of political decision making on topics of national interest. Each case has its own particular .......
https://www.overseasvotefoundation.org/files/Diasporas_Represented_in_their_Home_Country_Parliaments.pdf
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