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Date Published: 06/10/2022

Help for expats to register on the electoral roll

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Jumilla is helping expats register to vote in next year’s elections

Help for expats to register on the electoral roll

With local municipal elections due to be held in Spain on May 28, 2023, foreigners resident in Spain who wish to vote must enrol on the electoral census, but it can be a tricky business.

That’s why experts at Jumilla Town Council have released information for expats living in Spain of how to apply to form part of the Electoral Census of Foreigners Resident in Spain.

Spanish residents who are nationals of the European Union or of countries with Voting Reciprocity Agreements (which include the United Kingdom, Norway, New Zealand, Iceland, Bolivia, Cape Verde, Chile, Colombia, Korea, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, and Trinidad & Tobago), must express their intention to vote by submitting an application, as long as they meet the requirements. These are:

Be over the age of 18.
Have been legally resident, been in the possession of a ‘residencia’ card for at least three years prior to voter registration.
Be registered on the Padrón of the municipality in which they live and in which they wish to vote.

An application can be submitted in any of the following 3 ways established by the Electoral Census Office:

Online if they access the Spanish-language webpage of the National Statistics Institute (INE) Electronic Headquarters using the Cl@ve system or with the CTT (telematic processing key included in the letter communications sent by the Electoral Census Office).
By post, sending the letter received from the Electoral Census Office (postage paid).
At the local Town Hall by filling in the formal declaration form (DFA model), providing the original and a copy of your identity document or passport from your country of origin. Each local Town Hall in Spain may have their own opening times and deadlines for this paperwork to be filed. In Jumilla, specifically, the period for submitting applications will be from December 1, 2022 to January 15, 2023, (both inclusive) from 8am to 12pm, at the Statistics Service of this Town Hall.

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Oficina de Turismo Jumilla

The tourist office in the centre of Jumilla is easily found by driving straight into the centre of the town along the Avenida de Murcia and following the signposts. The tourist office is alongside the Parque de Don Albano Martínez Molina, where there are a number of parking spaces.

Jumilla, in the north of the Region of Murcia, has become internationally famous over recent decades due to the quality of the wines produced in the municipality, and wine tourism has begun to attract visitors from other parts of Spain and the rest of Europe.

The tourist office is happy to provide a range of maps and leaflets showing the different bodegas which can be visited within the municipality. Some of these form part of the Rutas del Vino de Jumilla, the Jumilla wine route, and can either be visited as a guided tour or sell their produce directly to the public.(see feed below for more details)

However, the town and the surrounding countryside have plenty of other attractions for visitors, and the popularity of Jumilla wines is leading more and more people to discover other facets of the tenth largest municipality in Spain.

Jumilla Tourist Office

These include the spectacular countryside and birdlife in the Sierra del Carche, the historic remains which range from cave paintings and a Roman mausoleum to the castle, the Iglesia de Santiago, the Town Hall and the Teatro Vico, and the gastronomy: rich stews are accompanied not only by the wines of the area but also by Jumilla pears, which also enjoy Denomination of Origin status.

Tourism in Jumilla is not as seasonal as it is in the coastal areas of the Region of Murcia, but the town is at its liveliest during the fiestas in Holy Week and the August Fair, which incorporates the grape harvest celebrations and the Moors and Christians parades.

The Altiplano of the Region of Murcia, which consists of the municipalities of Jumilla and Yecla, is only just over an hour by car from the Mar Menor, Cartagena, Mazarrón, Torrevieja and Alicante, and anyone wishing to visit real inland Spain and world-class wineries is advised to include Jumilla in their schedule.