US EditionNicaragua Legislature Votes to End Dual Citizenship
- Nicaragua's National Assembly voted unanimously on May 16, 2025, to approve a constitutional amendment eliminating dual citizenship.
- The reform arose amid the legislature's Sandinista Front majority and follows prior actions stripping citizenship from opponents, requiring a second approval in 2026 to take effect.
- The amendment mandates Nicaraguans losing citizenship if they acquire another nationality and requires foreigners to renounce prior citizenship except Central Americans, affecting thousands, including political opponents.
- Legislature President Gustavo Porras explained that foreigners applying for Nicaraguan citizenship must give up their previous nationality, with the exception of Central Americans who are allowed to keep theirs.
- This amendment, following prior stripping of citizenship from over 400 people and deportation of 222 leaders, signals continued government control over national identity and citizenship rights.
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Ortega and Murillo Impose a Law that Dispossesss Nicaraguan Nationality From Citizens Who Obtain Another
Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo have imposed on Friday afternoon a reform of articles 23 and 25 of the Nicaraguan Constitution regarding the loss of nationality. The new law, in a new repressive turn against the population of Nicaragua, states that citizens who have obtained a second nationality automatically will lose Nicaraguan nationality. The decision, after its approval by the loyal Sandinista deputies, has plunged an entire country into …
Daniel Ortega’s Regime Will Withdraw Nationality From Nicaraguans Who Acquire Foreign Citizenship
“Whoever acquires another nationality and swears allegiance to a foreign state breaks the legal and moral link with Nicaragua. There can be no double fidelity: the homeland demands exclusive commitment,” Ortega and Murillo argued in the legal document that accompanied the constitutional reform.
Nicaragua legislature votes to end dual citizenship
MEXICO CITY - Nicaragua's National Assembly approved a constitutional amendment on Friday to eliminate dual citizenship in a move that would impact thousands of people, including government opponents. Read more at straitstimes.com.
El Economista
TVNNicaragua Will Withdraw Nicaraguans with Another Citizenship
Nicaragua approved on Friday a constitutional reform that eliminates dual nationality, so Nicaraguans who acquire another citizenship will lose it, the National Assembly said that it made the changes at the request of the co-chairs Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.The Sandinista government of the Ortega and Murillo husbands have stripped hundreds of Nicaraguan nationality of opponents and critics expelled from the country in recent years.The Na…
Telemundo Fresno
Nicaraguans at Birth Will Lose Their Nationality if They Acquire Another Citizenship
SAN JOSÉ – Nicaragua’s National Assembly approved on Friday another partial reform of the Constitution that states that Nicaraguans at birth “will lose their nationality by acquiring another nationality.” The constitutional amendment, proposed as a matter of urgency by the husbands and co-chairs of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, was quickly and manually approved by the 91 deputies that make up the Parliament during a special sessi…
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