Senior Labor figures are raising Fatima Payman’s Afghan citizenship as a risk to her remaining in the Senate because of a potential breach of section 44 of the Constitution, after she quit the ALP.
Section 44 of the Constitution, which states ‘foreign citizens and dual citizens cannot sit in parliament,’ Fatima Payman is a citizen of Afghanistan.
Her excuse of not being able to renounce her citizenship doesn’t wash. She should never have been elected.