Terrorism

France’s Senate is blocking reform of the Constitution

Heavy defeat for the ruling socialists: The opportunity for the after the Paris attacks that targeted reform of the Constitution continued to fall. The Senate supports the proposed Expatriation of terrorists.

President Hollande (l.) and his Prime Minister Valls to bite the Conservatives in the Senate on granite

It comes to the sensitive issue of “deprivation of citizenship”, and as expected, the Conservative-dominated second chamber of the Parliament has switched to confrontation.

The French head of state François Hollande after the terrorist attacks of 13. November, in which 130 people were killed, a constitutional reform was announced, with the help of, among other things, the so far only by the law regulated the state of emergency in the Constitution is to be recorded. At the same time, to be enshrined in the basic law, that in terrorist process, the French government condemned the French may be deprived of citizenship – this project is highly controversial.

Senate – national Assembly for

The national Assembly approved in mid-February for a Version of the article, in the deprivation of citizenship is also in French without a second nationality. Thus, persons could be stateless.

The Senate amended in its vote this Version now. A deprivation of citizenship of convicted terrorists is supposed to be only in the case of double citizenship is allowed. Several senators had made in the run-up to clearly, such a measure as the deprivation of citizenship to stand in a democracy such as France bad. To declare enemies of the state or other criminals “stateless”, remember to much of the practices of the fascist regime of Marshal Pétain during the Second world war.

No Reform Of The Constitution?

For a constitutional amendment to some of the senators and representatives on a joint Text, which now appears unlikely. Hollande could make a new attempt to win both chambers of Parliament for a joint Text.

In Paris, however, is rather expected that the President buries the entire reform of the Constitution, or to the anchoring of a state of emergency in the Constitution is limited.

se/sti (afp, dpa)