Agreed PolicyNation, Citizenship, Immigration and Europe
Voting Rights After Naturalization
Naturalized citizens should wait a further four years after naturalization before receiving full voting rights.
Policy catalogueNation, Citizenship, Immigration and Europe
Agreed PolicyEligibility for High Public Office
The highest offices of the nation are reserved for citizens with a birth, descent and historical connection to the country rather than acquired citizenship alone.
Position
Ordinary citizenship and eligibility for supreme constitutional, security and military offices are distinct questions. Naturalization alone does not create eligibility for the highest offices of state.
Policy
- Apply heightened eligibility rules to head of state, head of government, defence and internal-security leadership, senior armed-forces command, senior intelligence leadership and other offices of exceptional constitutional authority.
- Require citizenship from birth and a demonstrable ancestral or historical national connection.
- Require substantial national roots, command of the national language and an established record of loyalty to the constitutional and national order.
- Ordinary naturalization, regardless of duration, does not by itself confer eligibility for these offices.
- Define precisely by statute which offices fall within the restricted category.
Implementation note
Implementation note
Rules based on descent, birth or ethnic origin would face major equality and non-discrimination challenges under current European and international human-rights law. Any implementation would require unusually precise legal criteria and potentially constitutional or treaty change.
Manifesto basis
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Related positions
- Agreed PolicyNation, Citizenship, Immigration and Europe
Naturalization
The normal route requires around fifteen years of lawful residence before an application may be made, with demanding assimilation requirements.
- Manifesto CoreGovernment, Justice and Public Order
Authority, Democracy and Subsidiarity
Power should be exercised at the lowest competent level. Elections, representation and constitutional limits coexist with a rejection of philosophical liberalism.
- Agreed PolicyNation, Citizenship, Immigration and Europe
Citizenship by Descent and Restoration
Documented national descent may justify a substantially faster restoration route than ordinary naturalization.
Every question in this catalogue carries a position. Entries marked Derived follow the direction of the manifesto without their implementation being fixed, and several name the legal or treaty change they would require. Positions are revised as the movement decides; the version and date above say which text you are reading.