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Wednesday 10 Feb 2016 - 12:53 Makkah mean time-1-5-1437
French lawmakers (AFP file photo)
Paris (IINA) – French Lawmakers in lower house of parliament on Tuesday narrowly voted through 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 Paris terrorist attacks on November 13 that killed 130 people.
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, giving the security forces greater powers.
For the measures to be fully adopted, they require not only the support of the lower house of parliament and the upper house, or Senate, but also a three-fifths majority of Congress – the body formed when both houses meet at the Palace of Versailles to vote on revisions to the constitution.
Earlier Tuesday, parliament overwhelmingly voted to extend the current state of emergency by another three months.
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