Voir la source de Prohibition de la binationalité pour les mandataires politiques

Certains pays, comme l'Australie et la Bulgarie, interdisent à toute personne détentrice d'une deuxième nationalité le droit de se présenter à une élection législative, présidentielle, voire municipale (en Bulgarie si la deuxième nationalité est celle d'un Etat hors Union européenne). 

==Algérie==
''voir [[Discrimination politique sur base de la nationalité à la naissance]]''

==Arménie==
(Affaire Raffi Hovannisian en janvier 2003)
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Pierre-Yves Lambert 11 janv. 2003
ndPYL: L'ironie, c'est que cet Arménien d'origine américaine a été ministre
des affaires étrangères de la nouvelle République d'Arménie après
l'indépendance, ce qui lui est notamment reproché est de ne pas avoir fait
la démarche de renonciation à la nationalité américaine avant 2001. Et, de
bonne guerre, l'opposition met maintenant en doute la qualification de
l'actuel président, Robert Kocharian, étant donné qu'il faut être de
nationalité arménienne, donc pas binational, et résider en Arménie depuis
dix ans pour être candidat, ce alors que Monsieur Kocharian est un citoyen
de la République d'Azerbaïdjan, un pays voisin dont une partie du territoire
a été illégalement occupé et annexé par la République d'Arménie. Kocharian a
été en 1996-1997 président de la République autonome du Nagorno Karabagh,
une entité faisant partie de l'Azerbaïdjan tant avant qu'après la fin de
l'Union Soviétique. La question de sa nationalité et de la durée de sa
résidence sur le territoire de l'Arménie avait déjà été évoquée aux
présidentielles de 1998: "Despite doubts over Kocharian's citizenship and
apparent failure to meet residency requirements, the Central Electoral
Commission has approved his candidacy, on the basis of precedent, current
legal practice and contested constitutional provisions." (
http://groong.usc.edu/ro/ro-19980313.html ). La République d'Arménie se
range désormais, aux côtés par exemple de la Zambie, de la Côte d'Ivoire, de
la Guinée Bissau et de la Tanzanie, dans la catégorie des "démocraties" où
la question de la nationalité actuelle ou passée des candidats constitue un
élément important de la campagne électorale, voire un motif d'exclusion de
certains candidats. Et comme on l'a vu en Tanzanie l'année dernière (voir
http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/group/suffrage-universel/message/756 ), ce genre
de controverses ouvre souvent la boîte de Pandore...


http://www.bakutoday.net/view.php?d=1911

Court ruling dents Hovannisian's election hopes

The ex-minister, who would be a major candidate in the February 19
elections, deplored the court ruling, saying that he will appeal it at a
higher court
10/01/2003 04:10
RFE

A court in Yerevan dealt on Thursday another blow to Raffi Hovannisian's
hopes to stand in the upcoming presidential elections when it effectively
refused to certify that the U.S.-born former foreign minister has been an
Armenian citizen for the last ten years.

The widely anticipated verdict came in response to Hovannisian's appeal
against the presidential administration's refusal to backdate his
citizenship to 1991, when he first applied for it.

The presiding judge, Saro Aramian, rejected Hovannisian's arguments that his
repeated applications were unlawfully turned down by the current and former
authorities until 2001 when he finally received an Armenian passport. He
announced the decision after a long speech by Artashes Kakosian, a lawyer
representing President Robert Kocharian.

Kakosian claimed that there are no official documents in the state archives
proving that Hovannisian applied for Armenian citizenship in 1991. He said
the first such application was properly filed only in 1997.

The ex-minister, who would be a major candidate in the February 19
elections, deplored the court ruling, saying that he will appeal it at a
higher court. The latter is unlikely to overturn it, however.

Under Armenian law, ten-year citizenship and residency in Armenia is a key
requirement for the registration of presidential candidates by the Central
Election Commission. Hovannisian's failure to secure an appropriate official
document would almost certainly result in his exit from the presidential
race. In that case, he will likely endorse another major opposition
contender.

Hovannisian maintains particularly close ties with two of them, People's
Party (HZhK) leader Stepan Demirchian and Hanrapetutyun party leader Aram
Sarkisian.

His election disqualification would also lead the opposition to raise more
questions about President Robert Kocharian's eligibility to contest the
ballot. Kocharian, a former president of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh
Republic, moved to Armenia in 1997 after being appointed Armenian prime
minister. Immigration authorities have nonetheless certified that he has
permanently lived in Armenia in the last ten years.


http://www.armenpress.am/eng/news/polit.htm

FORMER FOREIGN MINISTER REFUSED OFFICIAL REGISTRATION AS PRESIDENTIAL
CANDIDATE
YEREVAN, JANUARY 9, ARMENPRESS: A Yerevan court turned down today an
appeal by Armenia's first post-Soviet foreign minister, Raffi Hovhanesian,
who protested the refusal of Armenian interior ministry to certify that he
has been Armenian citizen since 1991.
Hovhanesian was born in the USA in the family of a prominent US-Armenian
historian Richard Hovhanesian and has lived in Armenia permanently since
1991. He argues that all his applications for receiving Armenian
citizenship, which he sent to the administrations of ex- and current
presidents remained unanswered until 2001 August when president Kocharian
granted it to him. However, this makes him not eligible to run as a
presidential candidate, as he lacks a key constitutional requirement of
10-year-long citizenship.
A legal representative of president Kocharian at the court Artashes
Kupian argued that he could not accept Hovhanesian's claim, accusing him of
breaching Armenian law as he had not applied to interior ministry for
getting a permission for permanent residence in Armenia over the last
decade. He said no such application could be found in the interior and
foreign affairs ministries' archives.
He also argued that before the adoption of Armenian constitution in 1995
Hovhanesian could not obtain Armenian citizenship without renouncing his US
citizenship, as dual citizenship is banned by Armenian legislation.
Hovhanesian renounced his US passport just months before he was granted
citizenship by Kocharian in 2001.
Kocharian's representative went on to say that Hovhanesian formally
applied for receiving citizenship only in 1997 and he was offered to refuse
his US citizenship in three months time in order to get Armenian one, which
he said, was not done. He said the former foreign minister refused US
citizenship only in April 2001 and several months after president Kocharian
granted him Armenian citizenship.
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==Australie==
L'alinéa (i) de la section 44 de la Constitution australienne précise que "''Toute personne qui est soumise à toute reconnaissance d'allégeance, d'obéissance ou d'adhésion à une puissance étrangère, ou est un sujet ou un citoyen ou ayant droit aux droits ou privilèges d'un sujet ou d'un citoyen d'une puissance étrangère'' (...)'' sera incapable d'être choisi ou de siéger en tant que sénateur ou membre de la Chambre des représentants''". En d'autres termes, une personne détentrice de la double nationalité ne peut être candidate à des élections fédérales. La Haute Cour, dans deux jugements (affaire Wood et affaire Cleary), a estimé que le candidat doit « entreprendre toutes les démarches raisonnables pour renoncer à sa double nationalité avant de se porter candidat », ce qui signifie ''in concreto'' qu'il est tenu à effectuer les procédures de renonciation à son autre nationalité dans les pays où cette possibilité existe, ou à fournir la preuve qu'il a demandé à y renoncer dans le cas où l'autre pays refuse cette possibilité. Suite à ces problèmes, la Commission des affaires légales et constitutionnelles de la Chambre des Représentants a émis diverses recommandations suite auxquelles le département de l'Immigration et des Affaires multiculturelles (DIMA) a créé une base de données sur les procédures de renonciation à la nationalité pour divers pays <ref>Pierre-Yves Lambert, "[http://suffrage-universel.be/vo/auvo.htm Droit de vote, ethnicité et nationalité en Australie]", ''Suffrage Universel'', 10 décembre 2007</ref>.

==Bulgarie==

Dans l'affaire Ganchev/BG 25.11.1996 (DR 87-A, 130), la Commission européenne des droits de l'homme a statué en 1997 que la possession d’une deuxième nationalité peut être un motif de privation du droit de siéger au Parlement <ref>Franz Matscher, "[http://www.venice.coe.int/docs/2005/CDL-AD(2005)012-f.pdf Rapport sur l'abolition des restrictions au droit de vote lors d'élections législatives]", ''Commission européenne pour la démocratie par le droit (Commission de Venise)'', Entériné par la Commission de Venise lors de sa 61e Session plénière (Venise, 3-4 décembre 2004)</ref>.

L'article 4 du Code électoral stipule également l'inéligibilité des citoyens bulgares ou européens par ailleurs détenteurs d'une nationalité hors-UE<ref>European Commission for democracy through law (Venice Commission), [http://www.parliament.am/library/Electoral%20law/bulgaria.pdf Election Code of Bulgaria], Opinion No. 607 / 2010, Strasbourg, 21 February 2011</ref>.

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http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=22797
 
Double Citizenship Holders Might Be Allowed into Governance
� novinite.com Bulgaria in brief: 27 May 2003, Tuesday.

The ruling party in Bulgaria proposed changes in the country's legislations that will make it possible for people with double citizenship to run for presidential, ministerial or parliament posts. The proposed amendments will bring Bulgaria's legislation in line with the rules within the European Union. The suggestion of the ruling party could become reality if tabled in the Parliament and passed by the lawmakers.


 
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=22987
 
Rumours over Bulgarian PM Citizenship Denied
� novinite.com Politics: 4 June 2003, Wednesday.


Simeon Saxe-Coburg doesn't have Spanish citizenship, Spain's Justice Minister Jose Maria Michavila said in an official note to Bulgaria's ambassador to Madrid Vasilii Takev Wednesday.

The announcement came amid media allegations that, according to official from Spain's Justice Ministry, Bulgarian PM had Spanish citizenship.

Bulgaria's Constitution requires that the prime minister holds Bulgarian citizenship only.

Spain's official probably mistook Saxe-Coburg's Spanish diplomatic passport for a citizenship, Bulgaria's governmental speaker Dimitar Tsonev said.

Bulgaria's President Georgy Parvanov and right-wing opposition Union of Democratic Forces leader Nadezhda Mihaylova had called for legal-source information about Saxe-Coburg's citizenship.

My brother is a Bulgarian citizen and has always been. Those who claim any different should prove it, Saxe-Coburg's sister Princess Marie-Louise told Bulgaria's Darrik Radio Wednesd! ay.


http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=23075
 
Row over Bulgaria's PM Citizenship - "Fit of Hysterics"
� novinite.com Politics: 7 June 2003, Saturday.

The row over the citizenship of Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg was a media-triggered fit of hysterics, part of the attack launched against the Cabinet, Bulgaria's Justice Minister Anton Stankov told local NET radio on Saturday.

He underlined that the conflicting information on the citizenship of Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg have been checked at the beginning of his term, which is the appropriate way to approach the issue.

Earlier in the week Spain's Justice Minister Jose Maria Michavila denied claims that Simeon Saxe-Coburg has Spanish citizenship amid media allegations that Bulgarian PM held such a citizenship.

Bulgaria's Constitution requires that the prime minister holds Bulgarian citizenship only.

Sofia-based private Darik radio broke the news on Tuesday, claiming that according to an official from Spain's Justice Ministry, Simeon Saxe-Coburg has Spanish citizenship.

Talking to journalists in Karlovo Prime Mini! ster Simeon Saxe-Coburg called the row "ridiculous".

This story hangs in between comedy and tragedy, but it is time that we stopped it, the prime minister said. In his words it is insulting for the Bulgarians.


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==Congo (RDC)==

==Dominique==
voir 
*[http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/group/suffrage-universel/message/5084 Le premier ministre et le ministre de l'enseignement suspects d'être des binationaux français] (2011)

==Égypte==
===sous le régime Moubarak===
Reuters, "[http://web.archive.org/web/20011120095401/http://europe.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/meast/11/19/egypt.lakah.reut/index.html Egypt parliament strips businessman of seat]", ''CNN Europe'', November 19, 2001

===Après la chute de Moubarak===
(Controverses [https://fr.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/suffrage-universel/conversations/messages/5477 lors des présidentielles de 2012])
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http://www.cabinet.gov.eg/AboutEgypt/ConstitutionalDeclaration_e.pdf 
(The Provisional Constitution of the Arab Republic of Egypt or Constitutional Declaration of 2011 is the new provisionalfundamental law of Egypt. It was adopted on March 30, 2011 by the Egyptian Supreme Council of the Armed Forces who have been in power since the former president Hosni Mubarak relinquished his powers to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces on February 11, 2011.)

(Article 26) 
It is required for whoever is elected president of the republic to be an 
Egyptian who has never held another citizenship, born of two Egyptian 
parents who have never held another citizenship enjoying his political and 
civil rights, not married to a non-Egyptian, and not falling under the age 
of 40 years. 

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/36/122/38277/Presidential-elections-/Presidential-elections-news/My-mother-held-green-card-not-US-citizenship,-says.aspx

My mother held green card not US citizenship, says Abu-Ismail
Salafist presidential hopeful Hazem Salah Abu-Ismail once again denies his late mother held US citizenship, confirms his sister does
Sherif Tarek, Monday 2 Apr 2012

Egypt presidential candidate Hazem Salah Abu-Ismail has reiterated that his late mother did not hold US citizenship. She did, however, acquire a green card – permanent resident status – because she visited his US-based sister who holds US nationality. 
Allegations over the nationality of Abu-Ismail's mother, who passed away in her 60s, surfaced last week before he handed in his mandatory recommendations to the Supreme Presidential Electoral Commission (SPEC) and became an official presidential candidate.  

He strenuously denied the reports and elaborated further after new rumours started to circulate that his mother had a US passport.

According to Egyptian law, candidates for the presidency must be solely Egyptian with both parents holding only Egyptian citizenship.

In a YouTube video and a press release, Abu-Ismail said, "My mother, may God have mercy on her, was Egyptian, so were her parents and grandparents. She was born and bred in Egypt.

"My sister married an Egyptian doctor [who lives in the US] and got American nationality as a result. My mother used to periodically visit her and thus became a green card holder," he explained.

He said he had called on the SPEC to verify his claims with the Egyptian authorities.

"I met Farouk Sultan, head of the Supreme Presidential Electoral Commission. I told him that I wanted to leave no doubt that the rumour was false, so I asked him to give me a letter to hand to the passport authority so it could confirm what I have said, but he refused.

"I asked him to send a representative [of the SPEC] to check the story himself with the passport authority, but again he refused … Farouk was very polite but told me that he couldn't do what I asked.

"He said that he would send a letter to the passport authority and wait for its reply, which meant the question would be resolved only two days before the end of the formal registration process for presidential candidates on 8 April.

"I also asked the passport authority to state [in an official document] the nationality of my mother, but again I was turned down.

"Now I am preparing to file a lawsuit with the State Council because the whole problem might be a result of names that bear a resemblance to mine or false journalistic reports.

"It was said that my mother acquired US nationality three months before her death and that I know nothing about it.

"I feel there is a malicious plot to eliminate me from the presidential race."

With a relatively brief history in electoral politics, a respectable career as a lawyer, a reputable status as an influential Islamic preacher, and known for his sharp political rhetoric, Abu-Ismail has emerged as one of the frontrunners in Egypt’s first post-Mubarak presidential contest.

He announced his decision to run for the presidency in May 2011.

Presidential elections will take place on 23 and 24 May, and the president will be named on 21 June after a runoff voting round on 16 and 17 June.


http://allafrica.com/stories/201204021112.html
Egypt: Abu Ismail Denies Mother Holds U.S. Citizenship, Sister Does
Aswat Masriya (Cairo) 2 APRIL 2012
Salafist (ultraconservative) potential presidential candidate, Hazem Salah Abu Ismail, has denied rumors that his mother holds American citizenship, adding however that his sister does.

Abu Ismail explained that his sister moved with her husband to the United States over 20 years ago and thus holds US citizenship. As his mother paid frequent visits to his sister, she was given a green card which enables her to enter US grounds without visa and grants her the right to live there if she wishes, reported the Middle East News Agency.

Reports claiming that the presidential candidate's mother, Nawal Abdel Aziz Noor, holds US citizenship have widely circulated since Wednesday. Such condition would disallow Abu Ismail from running for president as Egypt's elections law requires that candidates' parents and spouses only hold Egyptian citizenships.

Abu Ismail submitted his presidential documents to the High Presidential Elections Commission (HPEC) on Friday after securing more than the amount needed.

According to Egypt's elections law, candidates are required to secure the support of 30 parliamentarians, collect endorsements from 30, 000 citizens or enjoy the official support of a political party that holds at least one seat in parliament, in order to officially run for president.

All in all, eight candidates have officially submitted their presidential documents, one week before the floor for registration closes.

Five candidates were endorsed by political parties and have submitted their presidential documents to the HPEC; Ahmed Mohamed Awad Ali (National Party), Aboul Ezz Al-Hariri (Popular Socialist Coalition Party), Mohamed Fawzi Eissa (Democratic Generation Party), Hossam Khairallah (Democratic Peace Party) and Hisham Al-Bastawisi (National Progressive Unionist Party).

Three candidates were able to secure the 30, 000 recommendations required and have also submitted their documents to the HPEC; Amr Moussa, Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh and Hazem Salah Abu Ismail.

Egypte - Le candidat salafiste aux présidentielles écarté parce que sa mère était devenue... américaine avant de mourir :-)
Pierre-Yves Lambert <pylambert@gmail.com>	7 avril 2012 à 19:40
À : su <suffrage-universel@yahoogroupes.fr>
lien permanent: http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/group/suffrage-universel/message/5477

[ndPYL Bien fait, au lieu de pleurnicher et de crier au complot ils feraient mieux de s'en prendre à eux-mêmes pour avoir tous souscrits, comme les autres partis égyptiens, à cet article débile de la constitution provisoire. Ce qui est choquant, ce n'est pas que la commission électorale essaie de prouver que le candidat ne remplit pas toutes les conditions, ce sont ces conditions elles-mêmes. La seule condition acceptable à mes yeux serait que chaque candidat s'engage, au cas où il est détenteur d'une autre nationalité que celle du pays où il se présente, à y renoncer avant d'entrer en fonctions s'il est élu, comme Jan Sveniar en République tchèque en 2008 (je pense la même chose pour Eva Joly, binationale franco-norvégienne, mais comme une telle loi n'existe pas en France le problème ne se pose pas, ce d'autant plus qu'il n'a jamais été envisagé qu'elle accède réellement à la fonction présidentielle). Le problème s'était déjà passé il y a quelques mois en Tunisie et en Algérie, voir http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/group/suffrage-universel/message/5338 . Voir aussi http://suffrage-universel.be/wiki/index.php?title=Discrimination_politique_sur_base_de_la_nationalit%C3%A9_%C3%A0_la_naissance ]

http://www.cabinet.gov.eg/AboutEgypt/ConstitutionalDeclaration_e.pdf 
(The Provisional Constitution of the Arab Republic of Egypt or Constitutional Declaration of 2011 is the new provisionalfundamental law of Egypt. It was adopted on March 30, 2011 by the Egyptian Supreme Council of the Armed Forces who have been in power since the former president Hosni Mubarak relinquished his powers to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces on February 11, 2011.)

(Article 26) 
It is required for whoever is elected president of the republic to be an Egyptian who has never held another citizenship, born of two Egyptian parents who have never held another citizenship enjoying his political and civil rights, not married to a non-Egyptian, and not falling under the age of 40 years. 


http://www.jeuneafrique.com/actu/20120407T170828Z20120407T170826Z/egypte-la-pression-s-accentue-sur-le-candidat-salafiste-a-la-presidentielle.html 

Egypte: la pression s'accentue sur le candidat salafiste à la présidentielle

07/04/2012 à 17h:08 | AFP    

La commission électorale égyptienne a annoncé samedi avoir été informée par le ministère des Affaires étrangères que la mère du candidat salafiste à la présidentielle, Hazem Abou Ismaïl, avait bien un passeport américain, ce qui va probablement l'exclure de la course.

La loi électorale stipule en effet que tout candidat à la magistrature suprême doit être uniquement égyptien, de même que ses parents et son épouse.

Selon le ministère égyptien des Affaires étrangères, "Nawal Abdel Aziz Nour a obtenu la nationalité américaine le 25 octobre 2006", a indiqué la commission dans un communiqué.

Le ministère a joint à sa lettre la copie de la demande de naturalisation de la mère du candidat, aujourd'hui décédée.

La commission avait déjà indiqué jeudi avoir été informée par le service de l'immigration que la mère de Hazem Abou Ismaïl avait utilisé un passeport américain dans ses déplacements de et vers l'Egypte avant son décès.

La nouvelle avait provoqué la colère des partisans du salafiste, qui ont dénoncé une "manipulation" et sont descendus vendredi par milliers dans la rue pour exiger que leur candidat reste dans la course.

Le dépôt des candidatures à l'élection présidentielle, dont le premier tour est prévu les 23 et 24 mai, s'achève dimanche.

La commission doit examiner les candidatures les 12 et 13 avril. Les candidats rejetés auront 48 heures pour contester la décision et la liste définitive doit être publiée le 26 avril.

M. Abou Ismaïl avait déposé sa candidature en fanfare le 30 mars, avec les 30. 000 parrainages d'électeurs nécessaires et flanqué de dizaines de véhicules.

Les salafistes, nouveaux venus sur la scène politique égyptienne, ont fait une percée surprise aux législatives en remportant un quart des sièges. Ces fondamentalistes s'attachent à la lettre des textes religieux et veulent l'application de la charia (loi islamique) au quotidien.
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==États-Unis==
La question de la double nationalité a été posée en 2014, dans la perspective de sa candidature à l'élection présidentielle, par divers médias à propos de Ted Cruz. Ce dernier était étatsunien par filiation maternelle, mais également canadien par droit du sol, bien qu'il ait déclaré ne jamais avoir effectué de démarche en ce sens ni détenu un document d'identité en tant que canadien. Bien que rien n'interdise à un (candidat-)président d'être binational, il a toutefois formellement effectué les démarches pour renoncer à (son droit à) la nationalité canadienne<ref>Associated Press,
"[http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/01/03/ted-cruz-canada-dual-citizenship/4308583/ Sen. Ted Cruz still citizen of U.S. and Canada]", ''USA Today'', 3 janvier 2014</ref> <ref>Saeed Ahmed, "[http://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/11/politics/ted-cruz-canada-citizenship/ It's official: Ted Cruz a citizen of the U.S. - and the U.S. only]", ''CNN'', 11 juin 2014</ref>.

==Haïti==
:(Le) problème s'est posé en Haïti en avril 1998 à propos de la nomination de l'économiste Hervé Denis comme premier ministre, quand certains députés ont affirmé qu'il avait voyagé avec un passeport belge, alors que la constitution haïtienne de 1987 précise explicitement que " La double nationalité haïtienne et étrangère n'est admise dans aucun cas." (art. 15) et que "La Nationalité haïtienne se perd par: a) La Naturalisation acquise en Pays étranger (...)" (art.13).
:Un journaliste du quotidien belge De Morgen (10/4/98) a mené l'enquête auprès des ministères de la Justice, des Affaires Etrangères et de l'Intérieur, sans succès. Selon un porte-parole des Affaires étrangères, "On ne le trouve pas. Il est donc improbable qu'il aie la double nationalité, mais cela n'est pas totalement exclu." En fait, les réfugiés voyagent effectivement avec des documents délivrés par les autorités belges, ce qui pourrait expliquer la confusion<ref>[[Pierre-Yves Lambert]], ''[http://www.suffrage-universel.be/be/00.htm La participation politique des allochtones en Belgique - Historique et situation bruxelloise]'', Louvain-la-Neuve, Academia-Bruylant (coll. Sybidi Papers), juin 1999, 122 pages ISBN 9782872095551</ref>.

==Israël==
L'article 16A de la Basic Law (équivalent d'une constitution) interdit à un.e député.e de prêter serment sans avoir préalablement fait tout ce qui était en son pouvoir pour renoncer à toute autre nationalité dont iel serait détenteur.trice<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20191121100157/https://www.knesset.gov.il/laws/special/eng/basic2_eng.htm Basic Law: The Knesset - 1958], site de la Knesset</ref>.

==Jamaïque==
voir
*[http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/group/suffrage-universel/message/3904 Un ministre renonce à sa double nationalité suite à la déchéance de son mandat]  (2008)
*[http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/group/suffrage-universel/message/5304 Une candidate travailliste dément avoir la nationalité belge] (2011)
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résumé: Un ministre jamaïcain a entamé hier une procédure de renonciation à sa nationalité américaine suite à un arrêt de la Cour Suprême de Jamaïque vendredi dernier qui l'a déchu de son mandat de député à cause de sa double nationalité. La Jamaïque, comme l'Australie par exemple, interdit à un parlementaire ou à un membre du gouvernement de conserver (ou d'acquérir) une autre nationalité que celle du pays où il exerce son mandat législatif ou exécutif.

comparaisons internationales: Un des candidats aux élections présidentielles tchèques de février 2008, Jan Svejnar, était un binational tchéco-américain, il s'était seulement engagé, s'il était élu, à renoncer à sa nationalité américaine (cf. http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/group/suffrage-universel/message/3784 ). La question de la double nationalité a été posée ces deux dernières années pour des membres des gouvernements néerlandais (Nebahat Albayrak et Ahmed Aboutaleb) et français (Rachida Dati), mais comme elle n'a été évoquée au départ que par des partis xénophobes il n'y a malheureusement pas eu de véritable débat. Le refus de renoncer publiquement à toute autre nationalité par des parlementaires ou des membres de gouvernements revient pourtant à affirmer clairement leur allégeance à un Etat étranger (et à un monarque de droit divin, pour les Marocains), ce qui ne pose par contre pas problème pour des élus locaux ou des "citoyens lambda". La question de la double nationalité pose par contre un véritable problème de sécurité nationale dans le cas de hauts fonctionnaires, ou de militaires (notamment pour ceux envoyés dans des missions à l'étranger, ex. Belgo-Serbes ou Belgo-Kosovars envoyés au Kosovo, Franco-Israéliens ou Franco-Libanais envoyés au Liban etc.).


http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20080414T220000-0500_134544_OBS_VAZ_BEGINS_PROCESS_TO_RENOUNCE_US_CITIZENSHIP_.asp

Vaz begins process to renounce US citizenship

BY Paul Henry Observer staff reporter editorial@jamaicaobserver.com
Jamaica Observer Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Government Minister Daryl Vaz yesterday began the process of renouncing his United States citizenship in order to contest a pending by-election in the West Portland constituency from which he was disqualified as member of parliament by the Supreme Court last Friday.

Following a mid-morning press conference at the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) headquarters in Kingston, Vaz made his way to the US Embassy in Liguanea, St Andrew to begin the process of giving up his US citizenship, as promised last Friday.

On his arrival at the embassy, around 10:38 am, Vaz was greeted by a handful of jubilant female supporters, who shouted, "By-election pon dem! By-election pon dem! A him a di real MP."

The women escorted Vaz all the way to the entrance of the premises where they could go no further. All the while, a smiling Vaz, dressed in a brown suit, with an emblem of the Jamaican flag pinned to his left breast, flashed his US passport for a handful of journalists who showed up at the embassy.

After little under a half-hour, Vaz emerged from the embassy holding a form that he had to fill out as part of the renunciation process. The process, Vaz told reporters, could "take a few weeks" based on his discussions with embassy officials.

". I'm to come back tomorrow [today] to furnish further information and hand in my US passport. From then on, the ball will be in the [embassy's] court," Vaz said, while the same group of female supporters cheered him on.

The Opposition's Abe Dabdoub, following his defeat at the September 3, 2007 general elections, had brought an election petition against Vaz, claiming that the Jamaican Constitution does not allow Vaz to sit in Parliament because of his status as a US citizen. Dabdoub had also asked the court to hand the seat over to him but was not successful in that bid and has, since Friday, indicated his intention to appeal that decision. A 42-day stay of the execution of the judgement, and by extension, the by-election, was last Friday granted by the court.

Chief Justice Zaila McCalla said in her ruling on Friday that the ". positive acts of renewing and travelling on his United States passport [Vaz] . has, by virtue of his own acts, acknowledged his allegiance, obedience or adherence to the [US] and by virtue of Section 40 (2)(a) he was not qualified to be elected as a member of the House of Representatives".

Responding to a question posed by the Observer at yesterday's press conference, Vaz said he never renounced his US citizenship when his eligibility was questioned before the election because of the legal advice he had received.

"Had I known that there would be a possibility that my renewing my [US] passport would have caused such a problem, I would have renounced my citizenship before," he said. "There would have never been a question of my citizenship. I would have returned it [the citizenship] to sender."

JLP general-secretary Karl Samuda also said that the party had received legal advice from "luminaries" within the legal profession that Vaz's status as a US citizen would not have prevented him from contesting the election.


De : Pierre-Yves Lambert <pylambert@gmail.com>
Date: mer. 16 nov. 2011 à 11:30
Subject: Jamaïque - Une candidate travailliste dément avoir la nationalité belge
To: su <suffrage-universel@yahoogroupes.fr>


http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20111115/lead/lead6.htmlI Have One Citizenship - LongmoreThe Gleaner - Published: Tuesday | November 15, 2011
By Edmond Campbell and Livern Barrett, Gleaner WritersTHE NEWLY installed Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) standard-bearer for Eastern St Andrew, Dr Saphire Longmore, has dismissed claims she has dual nationality.
Yesterday, news surfaced that Longmore, whose husband is a Belgian national, is a dual citizen.

However, the first-time political campaigner brushed aside the assertion, pointing out that she has a single nationality - Jamaican.

Longmore told The Gleaner yesterday that her husband, who is a European Union diplomat, also holds Canadian and Polish nationalities.

"I am actually entitled to three citizenships at this point in time ... . After three years of marriage, I have decided that I am not going to apply for any of them, including the Canadian citizenship, which I am entitled to as a (prospective) MP, being a Commonwealth country."

The JLP Eastern St Andrew caretaker made it clear that she could not acquire Belgian citizenship without first applying to become a citizen of that country.

"Once I make the request, it is practically automatic," she said, though stressing that she has made no application to become a citizen of another country.

Five JLP MPs were declared ineligible to sit in the House of Representatives after they were found to have dual nationalities.

The Constitution of Jamaica bars persons who have sworn allegiance to another country, outside of the Commonwealth, from being a member of the legislature.Offered a safe seatMeanwhile, Longmore has revealed she was also approached by the People's National Party (PNP) to contest the upcoming general election on its ticket.

"And I was offered a safe seat," Longmore claimed in her maiden political address at the JLP's Area Council One conference at the Denham Town Community Centre on Sunday.

However, the trained psychiatrist said she chose the JLP because, "I wanted to go to the better party".

She told cheering Labourites that while she was new to politics, she was not new to the problems of the people of Jamaica.

"I am a problem solver. You are getting a professional," Longmore told her supporters.

Claiming that she sometimes get up to three job offers from overseas daily, the first-time candidate said she has chosen to stay and help build her country.

"I want to help fix this rock," she said.

The JLP announced last week that Longmore would replace Dr St Aubyn Bartlett as the JLP representative in Eastern St Andrew.

An internal poll done in the constituency had revealed that Bartlett had lost popular support and would have been trounced in the race for a seat in Gordon House.
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==Kirghizistan==
voir
*Staff Report, "[http://centralasiaonline.com/cocoon/caii/xhtml/en_GB/features/caii/newsbriefs/2011/07/08/newsbrief-06 Dzhalal-Abad mayor fired for Russian citizenship]", ''CentralAsiaOnline.com'', July 8, 2011

==Maroc==
Il n'y a aucune prohibition de la binationalité, que ce soit pour les membres de la Chambre des Représentants ou pour ceux du gouvernement, mais "est inéligible [à la Chambre des Représentants] toute Marocaine et tout Marocain résidant à l’étranger investi d’une mission gouvernementale, élective ou publique, dans le pays de résidence" et "Est incompatible avec le mandat de membre de la Chambre des représentants, l'exercice de fonctions non représentatives rémunérées par un Etat étranger, une organisation internationale ou une organisation internationale non gouvernementale"<ref>[http://www.conseil-constitutionnel.ma/FR/TexteConstitution/Loi-Organique-Relative-Chambre-Representants_francais.pdf Dahir n° 1-11-165 du 16 kaada 1432 (14 octobre 2011) portant promulgation de la loi organique n° 27-11 relative à la Chambre des représentants.], ''Site du Conseil constitutionnel (marocain)''</ref>. Il "ne figure dans le texte du Projet de loi organique n° 065-13 relative à l'organisation et à la conduite des travaux du gouvernement et au statut de ses membres, aucune disposition relative au port par un ministre marocain, d’une double nationalité"<ref>Adam Sfali, "[http://web.archive.org/web/20141028091054/http://www.lemag.ma/Des-ministres-binationaux-dans-le-gouvernement-marocain-selon-un-depute-de-l-opposition_a86672.html Des ministres "binationaux" dans le gouvernement marocain selon un député de l’opposition]", ''Le Mag.ma'', 24 octobre 2014</ref>.

==Nigéria==
Controverse en 2008, des juristes estiment qu'il y a prohibition, d'autres que non, ou plutôt qu'elle ne concerne que les Nigérians qui ne le sont pas de naissance, donc pas ceux qui, né Nigérians, ont acquis une autre nationalité ultérieurement<ref>Ejimakor & Mbanaso (US-based Lawyers), "Dual citizenship constitutes no bar to Iwu holding office as INEC chairman", ''Sun News'', 20 mars 2008 (page consultée à l'époque, sauvegardée)</ref>.

==Pakistan==

voir:
*Terence J Sigamony, "[http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/national/26-May-2012/sc-suspends-farahnaz-as-mna-over-us-nationality SC suspends Farahnaz as MNA over US nationality]", ''The Nation'', May 26, 2012

==Taiwan==
voir:
*Staff Writer, "[http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=1091416&lang=eng_news&cate_img=83.jpg&cate_rss=news_Politics_TAIWAN Former KMT lawmaker Diane Lee admits double citizenship]", ''Taiwan News'', October 27, 2009
*Staff Writer, "[http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=1173198 Ex-lawmaker Diane Lee sentenced to two years over U.S. nationality]", ''Taiwan News'', February 5, 2010
*Rich Chang, "[http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2010/03/08/2003467508 Councilor’s citizenship investigated]", ''Taiwan News'', March 8, 2010
*Mo Yan-chih, "[http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2011/04/13/2003500622 DPP councilors urge dual citizenship probe]", ''Taiwan News'', April 13, 2011
*Staff Writer, with CNA, "[http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2011/11/22/2003518922 2012 ELECTIONS: PFP denies candidate is a US citizen]", ''Taiwan News'', November 22, 2011

==Tchéquie==
(présidence? cas de [https://fr.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/suffrage-universel/conversations/messages/3784 Jan Svejnar en 2008])

==Tunisie==
(présidence? [https://fr.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/suffrage-universel/conversations/messages/5338 débats à la Constituante en 2011])

==Notes et sources==
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==Voir aussi==
*[[Discrimination politique sur base de la nationalité à la naissance]]

[[Catégorie:Discrimination politique sur base de la nationalité|Binationalite]]
[[Catégorie:Nationalité|Binationalite]]
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