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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Lisa O'Carroll

British woman in France wins back pre-Brexit right to vote in EU elections

Alice Bouilliez
Alice Bouilliez is a former British civil servant who has lived in France for 38 years. Photograph: Alice Bouilliez

A French court has ordered electoral officials to restore a British woman’s pre-Brexit right to vote in European elections, triggering calls for a renewed push for a bilateral treaty on electoral enfranchisement in each other’s countries.

Alice Bouilliez, a former British civil servant who has lived in France for 38 years, said she was “extremely surprised” but delighted that the court in Auch in south-west France had ordered that the authorities put her name back on the electoral register for the EU elections.

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