BRATISLAVA, August 24, (WEBNOVINY) – According to leader of the KDH party Jan Figel, the coalition found a political accord to resolve the issue of dual citizenship through an amendment to the respective law. Figel told journalists after Tuesday’s Coalition Council meeting that the amendment should introduce standard international rules of acquiring multiple citizenship in the Slovak legislation. Coalition deputies are to submit to the parliament a draft amendment to the law on state citizenship. Based on the draft, a person should be able to hold citizenship of another country based on an actual relation between the applicant and the country, in addition to the Slovak one.
Figel further informed coalition partners of an accord between KDH and SaS on protection of the conscientious objection within labor legislation. The two parties have invited the SDKU-DS and MOST-HID parties to join in the talks on incorporating the reservation of conscience in the labor legislation.
In 2010, in reaction to the new Hungarian citizenship law allowing ethnic Hungarians living in neighboring countries to receive Hungarian citizenship, the government of Robert Fico adopted a legislation according to which individuals will lose their Slovak citizenship if they voluntarily obtain a citizenship of another country. The current coalition has planned to change the citizenship law in order to mitigate its sanctions since the start of the current election term, but has had problems to agree on how this should be done and how far the changes should go.
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