Italian citizens residing abroad and regularly registered with AIRE (Registry of Italians Residing Abroad) may exercise their right to vote abroad, in their place of residence, in national general elections, abrogative and constitutional referendums pursuant to Articles 75 and 138 of the Constitution, and in elections to the European Parliament.
Voting abroad in national general elections and referendums is governed by Law No. 459 of 27 December 2001 and its implementing regulation (Presidential Decree No. 104 of 2 April 2003), pursuant to Articles 48, 56 and 57 of the Constitution, which established the Overseas Constituency (Circoscrizione Estero).
Voting abroad for the election of Italian representatives to the European Parliament is instead governed by Law No. 18 of 24 January 1979 and Decree-Law No. 408 of 24 June 1994 (converted into Law No. 483 of 3 August 1994).
Italian voters residing abroad and regularly registered with AIRE may also vote in elections for representatives to COMITES – Committees of Italians Abroad (Law No. 283 of 23 October 2003).