59As regards the concerns of the referring court concerning the – in its view – disproportionate consequences of the loss of the status of citizen of the Union for a United Kingdom national, such as EP, who is moreover deprived of the right to vote in the United Kingdom under the 15-year rule, it must be stated, on the one hand, that the loss of that status, and consequently the loss of the right to vote and to stand as a candidate in the municipal elections in the Member State of residence of that national, is, as a general rule, as the Advocate General observed in point 42 of his Opinion, an automatic consequence of the sole sovereign decision taken by the United Kingdom to withdraw from the European Union, by virtue of Article 50(1) TEU.
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