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François Hollande drops plan to revoke citizenship of dual-national terrorists François Hollande drops plan to revoke citizenship of dual-national terrorists
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France’s president has said he will not push ahead with plans to change the constitution, including a clause allowing convicted terrorists to be stripped of their French nationality, after parliament failed to agree on the measure. France’s president has said he will not push ahead with plans to change the constitution, including a clause allowing convicted terrorists with dual nationality to be stripped of their French citizenship, after parliament failed to agree on the measure.
“Parts of the opposition have been hostile to a revision of the constitution. I deplore this attitude,” François Hollande said after a weekly cabinet meeting. “I have decided to end this debate.” “A compromise appears out of reach on the stripping of terrorists’ nationality,” François Hollande said after a weekly cabinet meeting. “Parts of the opposition have been hostile to a revision of the constitution. I deplore this attitude. I have decided to end this debate.”
The plan’s withdrawal is a major embarrassment for the Socialist president, who had unveiled it in a solemn address to parliament at the grand palace of Versailles only three days after Islamist militants killed 130 people in Paris.The plan’s withdrawal is a major embarrassment for the Socialist president, who had unveiled it in a solemn address to parliament at the grand palace of Versailles only three days after Islamist militants killed 130 people in Paris.
The initiative had divided lawmakers and caused months of heated discussions on what critics said was an inefficient and purely symbolic measure. The proposal to revoke the citizenship of convicted terrorists who had dual nationalities had prompted a heated political dispute in France, with the far right applauding the move and some on the left expressing indignation at what they called a divisive measure.
Opponents said it would create two classes of citizens: dual nationals who could lose their French citizenship and French citizens who cannot, in opposition to the principle of equality set out in France’s constitution.
Hollande’s plan to insert the rules for the state of emergency in the constitution was also abandoned.Hollande’s plan to insert the rules for the state of emergency in the constitution was also abandoned.
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