Tajani proposes restrictions on the ‘jus sanguinis’ principle
Italy’s deputy prime minister and foreign minister, Antonio Tajani, defended his plan to limit citizenship by blood (jus sanguinis) to Italian descendants and said the measure was necessary to prevent fraud and keep out people who apply for an Italian passport without demonstrating interest in an Italian passport. Village.
“There are agencies that advertise on social media and organize real scams, people who are not interested in Italy and want a passport only to enter Europe and the United States,” Tajani said at a press conference in Buenos Aires.
The project presented by the conservative party Força Itália (FI) would prevent Italian descendants whose parents, grandparents and great-grandparents were born outside the European country from obtaining jus sanguinis citizenship. Currently there is no generational limit for the transmission of citizenship and the recognition process is carried out by consulates abroad or by municipalities on Italian territory.
“Small municipalities of 300 inhabitants are unable to find the descendants of thousands of applicants, consulates and embassies are inundated with requests from people who are not interested in Italy,” added the minister.
According to Tajani, citizenship is “a serious thing” and must be obtained by people who “love and have a passion for Italy”.
However, FI’s proposal is a source of disagreement within the government and encounters resistance from the League, the party of which the deputy prime minister and minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Matteo Salvini, also belongs.
The Brothers of Italy (FdI) party, led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, has not yet taken a clear position on the bill.
Another pillar of the initiative is the so-called “jus italiae” (Italian law, in free translation), which provides for the granting of citizenship to foreigners born in Italy or arriving in the country before the age of five, when they turn 16. , but since then they have lived in the country for an uninterrupted decade and have completed school up to this age group.
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Source: Terra
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