70It is apparent from the latter provision that, in the context of their implementation and of their application by the Member States, provisions of EU law which are not applicable under Article 127(1)(b) of that agreement are to be understood as not including the United Kingdom within their scope. Those provisions include Article 20(2)(b) TFEU, Article 22 TFEU, and Articles 39 and 40 of the Charter, which concern the right to vote and to stand as a candidate in elections to the European Parliament and also in municipal elections. That right is reserved to every citizen of the Union residing in a Member State of which he or she is not a national, while Article 20(1) TFEU states that ‘every person holding the nationality of a Member State’ is a citizen of the Union.
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