MEPs vote registration of deprivation of nationality in the Constitution – The World

voting promised tight . It was. MEPs, however, adopted Tuesday, February 9 evening, the controversial article which included the deprivation of nationality in the Constitution for the perpetrators of terrorist crimes.

After freehand validated the amendment Government rewriting it without reference to dual nationality, elected officials have adopted Article 2 of the bill by a narrow majority of 162 votes against 148 and 22 abstentions.

it now provides that the Constitution will return the law for “the conditions under which a person may be deprived of French nationality and the rights attached thereto when convicted of a crime or offense constituting a serious attack on the life of the Nation “.

in the ranks of the left, 102 Socialist deputies voted against or refused to vote the text.

the ecology-within Europe green, only François de Rugy voted in favor of the article

right, the party Republicans for his part showed a division of his elect.

Read also: Forfeiture of nationality: what is the position of deputies before the vote in the Assembly?

Congress MEPs will vote Wednesday after questions to the Government on all the constitutional revision which also includes the registration of the state scheme emergency in the fundamental law.

the challenge will be whether the majority will be “broad” , as hope the Socialist group president Bruno Le Roux, since the constitutional amendment will require not only a consistent vote of the Assembly and the Senate, which is far from certain, but a majority of three-fifths of parliamentarians in Congress.

If revision Constitution is passed in Congress, an implementation bill will clarify the implementation of the forfeiture. The government forfeiture become a “complementary sentence imposed by a judicial court” . It could be ordered for “of violations of the fundamental interests of the Nation crimes” or terrorist crimes, as well as terrorist offenses if they are punishable by at least 10 years’ imprisonment.

Instead of deprivation of nationality, the judge may impose a sentence of forfeiture “the rights attached to citizenship” (civil or civic rights such as the right to vote the right to be elected, the right to hold public office …).

Statelessness

neither the Constitution nor the Bill of Application will no longer reference to the binational, therefore making theoretically possible forfeiture of a French having no other nationality. The government has just committed to the ratification of the UN Convention of 1961 on “the reduction of statelessness” .

This text however, allows states practicing statelessness in limited circumstances, including “a person who had a kind of behavior to be seriously prejudicial to the vital interests of the State” .