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| French Minister Christiane Taubira resigns amid terror row | |
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| French Justice Minister Christiane Taubira has stepped down from her job, shortly before MPs are due to debate plans to strip people convicted of terrorism of their citizenship. | French Justice Minister Christiane Taubira has stepped down from her job, shortly before MPs are due to debate plans to strip people convicted of terrorism of their citizenship. |
| Ms Taubira was known to disagree with the controversial proposals, | Ms Taubira was known to disagree with the controversial proposals, |
| The citizenship plans were put forward after the 13 November Paris attacks in which 130 people were murdered. | The citizenship plans were put forward after the 13 November Paris attacks in which 130 people were murdered. |
| "Sometimes staying on is resisting, sometimes resisting means leaving," she tweeted. | "Sometimes staying on is resisting, sometimes resisting means leaving," she tweeted. |
| Ms Taubira, one of France's few senior black politicians, has been replaced by Jean-Jacques Urvoas who is seen as a supporter of the constitutional change. | |
| Born in French Guiana, Ms Taubira has suffered racist taunts from the far-right during her time as justice minister. | |
| Same-sex marriage | |
| A communique from the Elysee Palace said that President Francois Hollande had accepted the justice minister's decision to resign. | |
| "They agreed on the need to bring her role to an end at a time when debate on constitutional revision begins in the National Assembly, today," the statement read. | |
| President Hollande also praised her part in pushing through same-sex marriage laws. | |
| Last month the justice minister made plain her distaste of the plan to strip citizens with dual nationality of their French citizenship, arguing it " would not help the fight against terrorism in any way". | |
| However, she appeared beside Prime Minister Valls when he announced the proposals. Mr Valls has described the reform as a "strong symbolic act against those who have excluded themselves from the national community". |