The French National Assembly approved today by a large majority the bill that would reform the Constitution to include therein a state of emergency and the ability to strip citizenship to those convicted of serious crimes against the nation.
EFE
In the vote of the lower house, 317 deputies voted in favor and 199 against, while 51 abstained, and thus gave its approval to the so-called Law on the Protection of the nation continues its parliamentary process, which now take the Senate in first reading.
The revision of the Constitution has caused serious cracks within the government (PS) Socialist Party, but also in the largest opposition party, Republicans (LR), many of whose members oppose these measures.
The votes to beat three fifths that will be needed for the bill to be approved definitively by the bicameral Parliament in session in Versailles (which in France is called Congress) after spending slightly the National Assembly and the Senate.
The bill consists of two points: the first is added to Article 36 of the Constitution to introduce the conditions in which it may be decreed a state of emergency in France, currently in force and in the process of being extended by three months.
The second section, the most controversial amendment, a paragraph of Article 34 of the Constitution to determine that "the law sets the rules (...) on the conditions under which a person may be stripped of French nationality when convicted of a crime which constitutes a serious attack on the life of the nation. "
This amendment opens up which can strip a citizen of French nationality for crimes linked to terrorism.
In a first reaction, the French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, who has vehemently defended the reform, said he was "satisfied" by the vote, and was convinced that you get three-fifths of the support of Parliament for final approval.
Constitutional amendments have already been advanced by President Francois Hollande, in his speech before Congress, meeting in Versailles on 16 November, three days after jihadist attacks that caused 130 deaths in Paris and Saint Denis. EFE
EFE
In the vote of the lower house, 317 deputies voted in favor and 199 against, while 51 abstained, and thus gave its approval to the so-called Law on the Protection of the nation continues its parliamentary process, which now take the Senate in first reading.
The revision of the Constitution has caused serious cracks within the government (PS) Socialist Party, but also in the largest opposition party, Republicans (LR), many of whose members oppose these measures.
The votes to beat three fifths that will be needed for the bill to be approved definitively by the bicameral Parliament in session in Versailles (which in France is called Congress) after spending slightly the National Assembly and the Senate.
The bill consists of two points: the first is added to Article 36 of the Constitution to introduce the conditions in which it may be decreed a state of emergency in France, currently in force and in the process of being extended by three months.
The second section, the most controversial amendment, a paragraph of Article 34 of the Constitution to determine that "the law sets the rules (...) on the conditions under which a person may be stripped of French nationality when convicted of a crime which constitutes a serious attack on the life of the nation. "
This amendment opens up which can strip a citizen of French nationality for crimes linked to terrorism.
In a first reaction, the French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, who has vehemently defended the reform, said he was "satisfied" by the vote, and was convinced that you get three-fifths of the support of Parliament for final approval.
Constitutional amendments have already been advanced by President Francois Hollande, in his speech before Congress, meeting in Versailles on 16 November, three days after jihadist attacks that caused 130 deaths in Paris and Saint Denis. EFE