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Sitaropoulos and Giakoumopoulos v. Greece (application no. 42202/07)
By a majority
Violation of Article 3 of Protocol No. 1 (right to free elections) to the European Convention on Human Rights
Principal facts
The applicants, Nikolaos Sitaropoulos and Christos Giakoumopoulos2, are Greek nationals who were born in 1967 and 1958 respectively and live in Strasbourg, where they are officials of the Council of Europe.
In a fax dated 10 September 2007 to the Greek Ambassador in France, the applicants, being permanent residents in France, expressed the wish to exercise their voting rights in France for the Greek parliamentary elections.
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