{"id":81524,"date":"2024-07-07T10:50:54","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T00:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=81524"},"modified":"2024-07-07T10:51:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T00:51:01","slug":"payman-dual-citizenship-shakes-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=81524","title":{"rendered":"Payman dual citizenship shakes politics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Senior Labor figures are raising Fatima Payman\u2019s 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Section 44 of the Constitution, which states &#8216;foreign citizens and dual citizens cannot sit in parliament,&#8217; Fatima Payman is a citizen of Afghanistan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"649\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GRwurOJa4AA7jQA.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-81525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GRwurOJa4AA7jQA.png 649w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GRwurOJa4AA7jQA-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 649px) 100vw, 649px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Her excuse of not being able to renounce her citizenship doesn&#8217;t wash. She should never have been elected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Section 44 of the Constitution, which states &#8216;foreign citizens and dual citizens cannot sit in parliament&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":79121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,999,35],"tags":[5982,11147,8733],"class_list":["post-81524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-australia-politics","category-breaking-news","tag-canberra","tag-fatima-payman","tag-federal-government"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81526,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81524\/revisions\/81526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}