The Senate unanimously approved this Tuesday (June 3, 15) the PEC (proposed amendment to the Constitution) 6/20218 which makes it difficult to lose Brazilian citizenship. The project was voted on in 2 rounds and now goes to the Chamber for analysis.
According to the proposal, anyone who obtains the nationality of another country will not automatically lose Brazilian citizenship. The text also allows you to request the loss of your own nationality.
A loss of nationality This should occur in two cases: when naturalization is canceled by judicial decision due to fraud in the naturalization process or an attack against the constitutional order and the Democratic State; or in case of an express request from the citizen to the Brazilian government.
The inspiration for the proposal came from the case of Brazilian Cláudia Hoerig. She was extradited to the United States in 2018 to face charges of murdering her own husband. Legislation prohibits the extradition of native Brazilians, but the STF (Supreme Federal Court), at the time, ruled that Cláudia had lost her Brazilian nationality when she married an American citizen.
The senator Antonio Anastasia (PSDB-MG), author of the PEC, noted that, since the promulgation of the 1988 Constitution, public guidelines reassured citizens about maintaining nationality in cases like Cláudia's. He states that he proposed the PEC to calm Brazilians who live abroad in similar situations.
With information from The Senate Agency.
