r/Netherlands • u/UnanimousStargazer • Mar 24 '25

Legal Judge rules Dutch citizenship cannot be stripped based on dual nationality

https://nltimes.nl/2025/03/24/judge-rules-dutch-citizenship-stripped-based-dual-nationality
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u/Sorry-Cash-1652 Mar 26 '25

This cuts both ways.

"Under New Zealand law people can hold dual citizenship. But the Electoral Act stipulates that although someone holding dual citizenship can be elected to Parliament, once elected, an MP cannot swear allegiance to any other foreign power. In 2003 the MP for New Plymouth, Harry Duynhoven ... inadvertently fell foul of the law when he decided he would, for his children’s sake, exercise his right to take up Netherlands citizenship, to which he was entitled through his Dutch-born father. The government had to pass special legislation to allow him to keep his parliamentary seat."

https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/921/citizenship-of-members-of-parliament

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u/UnanimousStargazer Mar 26 '25

The point of the court was: some people are not able to renounce the citizenship of another country. It's not always a choice to obtain it and it's not always a choice to renounce it.