Luxembourg's Ministry of the Family, Integration and the Greater Region today announced plans to encourage more non-national redisents to register in time for the local elections to be held on Sunday 8 October 2017.

The awareness-raising campaign entitled "JE PEUX VOTER" (I can vote) will have a number of promotional components, including:

- leaflets, in 10 languages (Luxembourgish, French, German, Portuguese, English, Italian, Spanish, Serbo-Croat, Arabic, Chinese);

- display units for the leaflets;

- A3 posters in 5 languages (Luxembourgish, French, German, Portuguese, English);

- information stands, comprising roll-up banners and tables/lecterns (Luxembourgish, French);

- website in 5 languages: www.echkawielen.lu ; www.jepeuxvoter.lu ; www.icanvote.lu ; www.ichkannwaehlen.lu ; www.eupossovotar.lu

- Facebook page: www.facebook.com/jepeuxvoter.Icanvote (in French & English);

Elements of the awareness campaign will focus on new elements relating to voter registration. From this election onwards, all residents aged 18+ who have been resident in the Grand Duchy for 5+ years will be eligible to vote.

Currently, 25,501 non-national residents are registered to vote in the local elections (this figure was 30,937 for the 2011 local elections), of which 23,563 are EU nationals and 1,938 are non-EU nationals. This figure represents just 16.3% of the non-national resident population.

In a breakdown of voter registration by nationality, the Dutch lead the way at 25%, with Germans at 23%, Italians at 23%, Belgians at 22%, Montenegrans at 21%, Portuguese at 18%, French at 17%, British at 14% and Spanish at 12%.

See www.icanvote.lu