LABOUR JOINS BATTLE TO WIN EXPATRIATE VOTES

PALMA
LABOUR International is about to launch a campaign to win expatraite votes at the forthcoming general election.
The move comes just weeks after the Conservative Party recently launched its international election campaign here in Majorca when the island hosted the Conservatives Abroad Annual International Convention earlier this month.

The Labour Party press office told the Bulletin yesterday that Labour International is in charge of the campaign to secure expatriate votes and admitted that more effort is going to be made to contact Labour members and supporters living overseas over the coming months than in previous general elections.

A spokesperson for Labour International here in Spain, said yesterday that the party is still finalising its overseas election campaign but confirmed that the main focus of the forthcoming newsletter, which is being drafted as we speak, is going to be on the importance of “registering to vote, making sure your friends register to vote and then using that vote to vote Labvour, obviously.” Both parties are stressing the need for those expatriates entitled to vote, to register to do so because there are 2.5 million potential votes to be won at the forthcoming election which has got to be called between now and June.

However, there are only 13'000 British expatriates on the overseas register.
The Conservative Party, which first unveiled its overseas election campaign plans in Majorca in March before launching it on the island this month, apparently aims to capture 60'000 expatriate votes. Labour International will also be hoping to win as many overseas votes as possible as well with the Conservatives currently favourites to return to government within the next six months.

Labour International has four branches and groups on mainland Spain and new members are always welcome, the spokesperson told the Bulletin yesterday. “We would also be pleased to see new groups being created. Majorca would be ideal,” she added.
Labour International has branches in 40 countries and its chairperson, Jeremy Millard, is based in Denmark.