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Postal voting is possible for the first time in parliamentary elections of 2019
A possibility to vote by post will be introduced in Finland in the parliamentary elections of 2019. Eligible voters living permanently abroad and eligible voters staying abroad during the advance voting period and on the election day will have the right to vote by post in general elections.
Possibility to impose imprisonment for violation of entry ban as of 1 January 2019
Today, the President of the Republic approved legislative amendments by which a new provision on a violation of entry ban will be added to the Criminal Code of Finland. Until now, violations of entry ban have usually been punished as violations of the Aliens Act, for which the punishment is a fine. In future, a person violating an entry ban will be sentenced either to a fine or to imprisonment for at most one year.
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