Migration Advisory Board

The Advisory Board for Migration and Integration of the City of Jena (Migration Advisory Board) will be newly elected in 2019 for the next five years.

The Migration Advisory Board represents all residents of Jena who are foreigners and migrants. Its tasks include:

• Representation of the interests of all foreigners and migrants in Jena.
• regular meetings (meeting language is German)
• reporting in the city council
• Statements on municipal projects that particularly affect foreign and migrant residents

Eligibility to vote according to § 15 of the main statutes

Anyone is eligible to vote who

• is not German in the sense of Art. 116 Para. 1GG and
• was born on or before 03.12.2001 and
• has been registered with main residence in Jena for at least three months without interruption.

Anyone born on or before 03.12.2001 who has been registered in Jena for at least three months without interruption as a main resident and who is

• is German in the sense of Article 116 Paragraph 1 of the German Basic Law and has acquired this legal status as a foreign resident through naturalisation in Germany or
• is a German within the meaning of Article 116 (1) of the Basic Law and at the same time possesses a foreign nationality or
• has come to the Federal Republic as a German within the meaning of Article 116 (1) of the Basic Law, or
• whose father or mother is not a German or is not a German within the meaning of Article 116 (1) of the Basic Law.

Electoral roll

All residents who are entitled to vote in accordance with § 15 of the main statutes are included in the electoral roll, insofar as the prerequisites for the entitlement to vote can be determined by the city of Jena. On the basis of the electoral roll the documents for the postal vote are sent.

Postal vote

The election of the migration advisory board takes place in the form of a postal vote. This means that eligible voters will receive all voting documents by mail to their homes as of 12.11.2019.

Eligible voters who have not received postal voting documents should contact the Office for Migration and Integration, Saalbahnhofstraße 9.

• Those who are eligible to vote and have not been included in the electoral roll can still be included until 22.11.2019.
• Those who are eligible to vote and are on the electoral roll but have not received absentee ballot papers can still get the papers until 29.11.2019. Lost voting documents will not be replaced.

The voting documents consist of:

• an information and leaflet
• a ballot paper with surname, first name, date of birth, residential address and affidavit
• a ballot paper
• a ballot paper envelope
• a return envelope (ballot paper envelope) with the address of the polling station.

On the ballot paper, the affidavit must be signed, stating the place and date, that the person entitled to vote has marked the ballot paper himself.

Three votes may be given on the ballot to one or to different candidates. The choices must be clearly identifiable.

The ballot paper is placed in the ballot paper envelope and sealed. Ballot envelope and ballot paper are placed together in the return envelope. The return envelope is sealed and sent to the address printed on it. The return is free of charge.

Important: A ballot can only be considered if it is received in the Elections Office by 12/03/2019 at midnight.

Candidacy

Residents of Jena who wish to be elected as an honorary member of the Migration Advisory Board can register as a candidate during the designated period, from 09.10. to 29.10.2019, at the Citizens and Family Service, Löbdergraben 12. The Office for Migration and Integration, Saalbahnhofstraße 9 is also accepting candidatures.

An admissible candidate is:

• himself/herself entitled to vote according to § 15 of the main statutes
• born on or before 03.12.2001
• not excluded according to § 2 or § 3 of the main statutes

• Thuringian law on elections in the districts and municipalities
• Thuringian municipal election regulations
• Main statute of the city of Jena

As well as by appointment.