Uncertainty around the vote of deprivation of nationality – The Obs

PARIS (Reuters) – The vote of the Right Opposition, whose support is essential for the adoption of the constitutional reform providing for the extension of deprivation of nationality for terrorism, is uncertain to three days early the exam.

opposition groups in the Assembly showed Tuesday of caution, preferring to wait until the end of the debate next week in the Palais Bourbon, to decide.

Since its presentation to the Cabinet on 23 December, the bill provides for the entrenchment of the state of emergency and nationality of forfeiture upon conviction for terrorism has evolved during his visit Thursday last before the Law Committee of the Assembly.

It provides that the disqualification will be pronounced by a terrorism or criminal court, not by the administrative authority.

This penalty may be imposed for crimes not only constitute a violation of the fundamental interests of the nation or a terrorist act but, as was the opposition of the right, for offenses against fundamental interests of a terrorist or punished at least 10 years in prison.

the text provides that such a penalty will not be taken if it has the effect of making the convicted person stateless, which de facto limited to dual nationals.

But this latest version, the terms of which were set out in two ordinary law drafts presented by the Cabinet, still does not satisfy the opposition, supported the disqualification for binational, and part of the majority, who is against it.

“We will wait for the end of the debates in the Assembly next Tuesday to deliver us”, said Tuesday Christian Jacob, president of the group Republicans (LR).

“We are counting on the Senate then to get satisfaction,” he continued after his group meeting by recalling that the right there was a majority.

REPUBLICANS SHARED

the LR Philippe Gosselin MP for his part felt that within his group “doubt grows as and procrastination of the majority” and a number of members intervened against the reform, François Fillon, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet or even Patrick Devdejian.

“I would say that the group is about to share with a half for reform, against the other,” said he said.

the centrist UDI are also perplexed. “As it stands, the text is not satisfactory,” said Jean-Christophe Lagarde, also president of the UDI.

The Socialist Group has added to the confusion by refusing to Tuesday order the disqualification to only binational. he wants it to be possible to create stateless, returning to the “downfall for all” he had defended a time

the radical left group believes that Bill is “sloppy” but should, however the vote. The environmental group is divided between “for” and “against” while the Left Front is “radically against”.

It is not excluded that Tuesday night at the fortnightly meeting at Matignon on the state of emergency, the presidents of the Assembly, the Senate and parliamentary groups discuss the reform with the prime minister, Manuel Valls.

to be adopted, any constitutional reform needs to first be passed in identical terms by the Assembly and the Senate before Congress at Versailles where she will get a three-fifths majority of votes cast.

(Emile Picy, edited by Yves Clarisse)