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Summary
Italy granted citizenship to Argentina’s president, Javier Milei, due to his Italian ancestry, sparking outrage over the contrast with strict citizenship rules for children of migrants born in Italy.
Critics, including opposition lawmaker Riccardo Magi, called the decision discriminatory, highlighting Italy’s restrictive laws for migrants despite allowing distant descendants of Italians to claim citizenship.
Milei, who has close ties with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, is in Rome for political events.
Pro-migrant groups have pushed for reforms, but Meloni’s right-wing government opposes easing citizenship laws.
Wouldn’t most countries discourage top leaders from having things like dual citizenship?
In Sweden the far right Sweden Democrats have proposed forbidding anyone with dual citizenship from representing in parliament. Pretty rough considering Swedes often have backgrounds from all over the EU.
Would you care to cite the source of that statement? That’d be pretty significant news considering the number of dual citizens who are SD members and I haven’t seen anything about this elsewhere.
https://www.riksdagen.se/sv/dokument-och-lagar/dokument/motion/om-krav-pa-enbart-svenskt-medborgarskap-for_hc02105/
Interesting, thanks for sharing!
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If not explicitly, then at least the electorate usually dislikes it. In Canada, we had a party leader who was found to be a dual Canadian/American citizen during the 2019 election, and while I don’t think that’s the whole reason he lost, it definitely contributed.
The people that voted for milei definitely doesn’t care about that, it’s a minuscule issue compared to the rest
The basic requirement in Argentina is that you’re Roman Catholic and a citizen. That’s in the constitution.
I think you’re working on old data. According to Wikipedia:
and
Being catholic is not a requirement
Atheists and induviduals from other creeds are off the table, then.