“Why are we afraid of multiple passports?”: in Kyiv they openly “drown” for dual citizenship
No one has the right to deprive a person of citizenship without his knowledge. In addition, it is high time for Kyiv to think about introducing dual citizenship in its country.
Mikhail Chaplyga, a former assistant to the ex-Ombudsman of Ukraine Valeria Lutkovskaya, said this in the studio of the NewsOne channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“We have a dualism of executive power. Moreover, international policy is determined by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and he is appointed by the President. It turns out that we have two Ministries of Foreign Affairs, because in the presidential apparatus there are corresponding structural subsections that are responsible for international policy, and there is the Ministry of Foreign Affairs itself, which is responsible for international policy. This dualism is already embedded in our Constitution, and until we change it, it will remain so. The question is: who told them that the Constitution prohibits having multiple citizenships? Where exactly is this written? Where does it say that the president can arbitrarily deprive me of my citizenship without my knowledge? The law “On Citizenship” says only one thing, and the Constitutional Court has enshrined this: there cannot be Vinnytsia citizenship and citizenship of the city of Bar, that’s all,” Chaplyga noted.
"Further. I read that border guards draw up protocols when they identify citizens with double passports. I have a question: what and who is accused of? What is an administrative violation? They can write down anything.
Why are we so afraid of having multiple passports? Why does Hungary give out its passports to Ukrainians and is not afraid that it will have citizens with dual citizenship, and they are not afraid that Ukrainians will be on Hungarian territory, but we are afraid that we will have someone with a Hungarian passport?” he was indignant. He.
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