Paris – Forfeiture: the PS group wants a new wording of the Government on statelessness (Le Roux) – The Express

PS MPs want to delete “ reference to the prohibition of statelessness, which necessarily refers to dual nationality. We do not want to refer to dual nationality ,” said Mr Le Roux in the corridors of the Assembly.

According to several members, there would be no majority in the PS group to vote reform deprivation of nationality without this change. Conversely, if carried out, Mr Le Roux believes that “ large majority ” group would vote the constitutional revision.

If the executive agreed to withdraw in Article 2 of the draft Constitutional Review Act any reference to dual nationality, however indirectly it remains present in the preliminary bill of application that details the practical arrangements for the decline.

In this draft, which will be the subject of a call Wednesday to the Cabinet, it is clarified that the disqualification can have “ the effect of making the convicted person stateless “. For many socialists, this means that forfeiture may apply only to de facto binational.

“ A terrorist must be revoked, whether one or more nationalities. This is not a debate on statelessness ,” insisted Mr. Red.

At the opening of the meeting of the PS group Tuesday morning in the presence of the new Minister of Justice Jean-Jacques Urvoas, the Marseilles deputy PS patrick mennucci pushed “ a rant “according to participants, stating that” would no longer be the head of the PS group on this text “if” discrimination “toward binational stood.

“ And the group has engaged behind ” at the meeting of more than two hours, claimed several participants, which led Bruno Le Roux to the proposal before the Minister of Justice.

If the government accepted the demand of PS deputies, this would have the effect of making it possible statelessness in some cases, that would not a priori the executive.

But for the president of the Socialist Group would remain consistent with the announcement by the Prime Minister of the ratification of the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness of 1961.

This Convention provides for the possibility for a Contracting State “ keep the right to deprive a person of his nationality if he shall, at the time of signature, ratification or accession, in a statement to it specifies one or more grounds under its national law “. These reasons must fall within certain categories like “ a lack of loyalty to the Contracting State ” or “ behavior likely to cause serious prejudice to the essential interests of the State “.

Since the early debates on the decline, a number of MPs, including Mr Le Roux, consider that the creation of “ some stateless ” is less serious than making a distinction between the French.

PS MP Yann Galut, it may be “ the landing point ” within a group that never ceases to divide on the question.

Many PS deputies, however, remain opposed to the very principle of forfeiture of nationality and have tabled amendments including a “ National forfeiture ” which deprives persons convicted of many rights, without removing their nationality. This amendment brought by Olivier Faure was co-signed by 78 of his colleagues, more than a quarter of the PS group.

At this point, some 200 amendments were tabled to the total on the draft constitutional law from the different political groups.