“We are going to have a new nationality law”, said PSD parliamentary leader Hugo Soares this Tuesday, speaking to the Lusa news agency.
Regarding the version that came out of the specialty process, PSD and CDS accept a reformulation presented by Chega on a very specific point, according to which anyone who obtains it through clearly fraudulent means loses their nationality.
In the Government’s proposal, in this article, specifically, it was stated that “bona fide ownership of original or acquired Portuguese nationality for at least 10 years is a cause for consolidation of nationality, even if the act that gave rise to its attribution or acquisition is subject to administrative or judicial declaration of nullity”.
In the conversations that took place in recent days, according to a social democratic source, the PSD always refused to include a demand from Chega’s president, André Ventura, for there to be an automatic loss of nationality for serious crimes committed.
An amendment that, if accepted, according to the Social Democrats, would make the decree that came out of parliament unconstitutional.