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André Ventura also argues that there is a “National Test of Integration and Citizenship” to prove the knowledge of the Portuguese language.
The arrival will deliver a bill that provides for the withdrawal of Portuguese nationality to those who have obtained it by naturalization and commit serious crimes or encourage “The hatred or humiliation of the nation”The party announced today.
Such a bill had already been presented by arriving in 2021, when André Ventura was a single deputy, but had not been admitted by the Assembly of the Republicafter the Commission on Constitutional Affairs, Rights, Freedoms and Guarantees considered that it was unconstitutional, by undermining the principles of fundamental law such as equal treatment or the impediment of any penalty leads to the loss of civil, professional or political rights.
In the bill today announced by the arrival, the party considers that “nationality should not be understood as an absolute and untouchable right, especially when it is instrumentalized to compromise the values and institutions of the Republic. ”
“This waythe loss of nationality acquired by naturalization or when they have dual nationality, In cases where the individual practices acts that severely undermine sovereignty, national security or essential principles of the rule of law ”, reads the exposure of reasons for the diploma.
The arrival argues that crimes that should lead to loss of nationality include, for example, “participation in terrorist organizations, the involvement in state security crimes or any conduct that configures an attack on the grounds of the rule of democratic law. ”
The party thus proposes changes to the law of nationality so that, in the article regarding the loss of nationality, it is stipulated that it may be withdrawn to those who have obtained it by naturalization and is “definitely sentenced to effective penalties greater than three years in prison”.
In addition to this case, it would also lose nationality, “regardless of the applicable penalty”, who is “convicted of a final judgment rendered or revised and confirmed by the Portuguese Court, the crime of terrorism”, or by crimes such as “outrage of national and regional symbols”, “coercion against constitutional organs” or foreign connections.
Another of the situations foreseen by the arrival for the loss of nationality would be the offense, “in an ostensible and notorious way, with the purpose of encouraging the hatred or humiliation of the nation, national history and its fundamental symbols ”.
In this bill, the arrival also proposes that, in the criteria that constitute a foundation of opposition to the acquisition of Portuguese nationality, repeated practice of behaviors, conduct or offensive statements of the dignity of the nation and its symbols fundamental politicians, historical and cultural. ”
In addition to these measures regarding the loss of nationality, the party also proposes in the diploma that the criteria for obtaining Portuguese nationality is restricted, namely for children of foreign citizens born in Portugal.
Currently, the law provides that these children may automatically have the Portuguese nationality If one parent has been legally residing in Portugal for at least two years.
The arrival bill proposes that this deadline will become six years to citizens of Portuguese -speaking countries and ten years for the rest.
The party still wants, For those who want to naturalize, become mandatory prove “the existence of an effective connection to the national community“,” Have the ability to govern your person and ensure their subsistence, “and pass a “National Test of Integration and Citizenship” and prove that “they know the Portuguese language sufficiently”.
