Hungarian community in danger? Ukraine wants to forbid double citizens to be public officers, MPs, ministers

The National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (RNBO) wants the Kyiv government to modify relevant laws enabling the filtering of those who have citizenship(s) other than only the Ukrainian one. The secretary of the Council said that they would like these people to renounce their non-Ukrainian citizenship(s) to bear any public offices. In Western-Ukraine, Transcarpathia, almost 150 thousand Hungarians live, and most of them have at least Hungarian citizenship. Provided the parliament accepts the modifications, they can find themselves in trouble.

According to karpathir.com, the RNBO analysed the institution of double citizenship during their Friday session. Afterwards, they instructed the government to draft a law enabling state authorities to filter out everybody having additional citizenships and not only the Ukrainian one. Oleksij Danilov, secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, added during a press conference following the session that double citizenship means challenges, so the

RNBO instructed the Ukrainian government to draft a law in two months related to the issue.

He said that Ukrainian authorities should know whether people in public offices have more than only one (Ukrainian) citizenship. The future law would enable state authorities to trace whether an individual has other citizenship(s). The secretary said if somebody wants to become a member of the parliament, the government, or wants to work for the local authorities, everybody has to know whether they are a citizen of Ukraine or not.