Post by Daniel on Feb 10, 2016 9:15:08 GMT -5
French parliament approves stripping citizenship from terrorists
By Ben Ariel
2/10/2016
Lawmakers in France's lower house of parliament on Tuesday night narrowly voted to pass a highly controversial proposal to amend the constitution to strip people convicted of terrorist offences of their French nationality, AFP reported.
The measure, passed by 162 votes to 148 with 22 abstentions, followed weeks of debate after it was proposed as part of a set of measures by President Francois Hollande in the wake of the jihadist attacks in Paris in November that killed 130 people.
The nationality measure has strong public support but has deeply divided Hollande's ruling Socialist Party.
Christiane Taubira resigned as justice minister late last month over her opposition to it and Hollande's former prime minister Jean-Marc Ayrault has publicly condemned the amendment, noted AFP.
Socialist lawmakers, those from former president Nicolas Sarkozy's right-wing Republicans party and the centrist party UDI party, voted in favor of the measure, but Socialist fringe parties and most of the ecologist lawmakers were opposed.
Lawmakers will vote on Wednesday on the collective package of measures proposed by Hollande. They voted on Monday in favor of the other key measure in the package, the move to enshrine the state of emergency in the constitution, thus giving security forces greater powers.
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By Ben Ariel
2/10/2016
Lawmakers in France's lower house of parliament on Tuesday night narrowly voted to pass a highly controversial proposal to amend the constitution to strip people convicted of terrorist offences of their French nationality, AFP reported.
The measure, passed by 162 votes to 148 with 22 abstentions, followed weeks of debate after it was proposed as part of a set of measures by President Francois Hollande in the wake of the jihadist attacks in Paris in November that killed 130 people.
The nationality measure has strong public support but has deeply divided Hollande's ruling Socialist Party.
Christiane Taubira resigned as justice minister late last month over her opposition to it and Hollande's former prime minister Jean-Marc Ayrault has publicly condemned the amendment, noted AFP.
Socialist lawmakers, those from former president Nicolas Sarkozy's right-wing Republicans party and the centrist party UDI party, voted in favor of the measure, but Socialist fringe parties and most of the ecologist lawmakers were opposed.
Lawmakers will vote on Wednesday on the collective package of measures proposed by Hollande. They voted on Monday in favor of the other key measure in the package, the move to enshrine the state of emergency in the constitution, thus giving security forces greater powers.
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www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/207803
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