{"id":42041,"date":"2021-10-29T17:57:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T17:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=42041"},"modified":"2025-01-12T17:58:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T17:58:36","slug":"sierra-leone-pushes-to-allow-mps-dual-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/sierra-leone-pushes-to-allow-mps-dual-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone pushes to allow MPs dual citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sierra Leonean President Julius Maada Bio said he will introduce a bill that would permit MPs in the West African country to hold a foreign passport.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Wednesday evening, Bio said that he had authorised the attorney general to introduce a proposed constitutional amendment to &#8220;allow dual citizens to be qualified to be elected as members of parliament&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes after years of legal ambiguity in Sierra Leone over the right of dual citizens to run for office, with political parties forbidding candidates with foreign passports.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Supreme Court ruled in September that dual citizens are allowed to run for parliament, after a suit brought by lawmaker Kandeh Yumkella.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2021\/10\/29\/sierra-leone-pushes-to-allow-mps-dual-citizenship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2021\/10\/29\/sierra-leone-pushes-to-allow-mps-dual-citizenship\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sierra Leonean President Julius Maada Bio said he will introduce a bill that would permit MPs in the West African country to hold a foreign passport. In a statement on Wednesday evening, Bio said that he had authorised the attorney general to introduce a proposed constitutional amendment to &#8220;allow dual citizens to be qualified to [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-sierra-leone","type-news-articles","item-year-676","item-theme-dual-nationality","item-theme-nationality-of-politicians"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42042,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42041\/revisions\/42042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}