This is a double-edge sword as humans are corruptible and abuse is part of that
VERY important point.
Latvia has a category of “non-citizens”, which is completely different from “person without citizenship”. The main restriction is voting rights and a few minor ones, but otherwise they are still Latvian citizens. I guess in Latvian language it makes more sense.
I assume it’s about lowering the citizenship level, not stripping one entirely, which is illegal in most of the countries in the world.
Another thing I found interesting is that the largest historically “Pro Russian” party “Saskaņa” chose to abstain rather than vote against it.
So all Latvian parliament loses citizenship for supporting war in Iraq?
This is such a bullshit law, Latvia may have left Soviet Union, but Soviet Union mentality definitely didn’t leave Latvia. Of course it is necessary to regulate by law what people think privately. Latvia pulling a nice move from Polish/Hungarian or, to be completely fair, Russian playbook.
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Not birthright citizenship I presume.
This is a double-edge sword as humans are corruptible and abuse is part of that
VERY important point.
Latvia has a category of “non-citizens”, which is completely different from “person without citizenship”. The main restriction is voting rights and a few minor ones, but otherwise they are still Latvian citizens. I guess in Latvian language it makes more sense.
I assume it’s about lowering the citizenship level, not stripping one entirely, which is illegal in most of the countries in the world.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-citizens_(Latvia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-citizens_(Latvia))
Send them to Ruzzia!
Let’s hope it will happen.
Another thing I found interesting is that the largest historically “Pro Russian” party “Saskaņa” chose to abstain rather than vote against it.
So all Latvian parliament loses citizenship for supporting war in Iraq?
This is such a bullshit law, Latvia may have left Soviet Union, but Soviet Union mentality definitely didn’t leave Latvia. Of course it is necessary to regulate by law what people think privately. Latvia pulling a nice move from Polish/Hungarian or, to be completely fair, Russian playbook.