A threat to national security might include espionage or crimes that are part of the International Criminal Court's jurisdiction. The committee also wants dual citizens' citizenship to be revocable if it was obtained by leaving false information or by using bribes or threats.
All parties apart from the Left Party and the Green Party support the change, according to Swedish news agency TT.
But the four parties that make up the government coalition – the Moderates, Christian Democrats, Liberals and their far-right Sweden Democrat allies – want to take it a step further. In a separate opinion, they are expected to argue that "system-threatening crimes which seriously harm Sweden's vital interests" should be another reason to revoke dual citizenships, TT reported.
Aftonbladet and SVT reported that this could, for example, include gang crime.
The largest opposition party, the Social Democrats, warned that the government's plans could potentially put people who have committed even fairly minor crimes at risk of losing their citizenships.
"When we come to the SD-government's position on this question, it is not legally sound, is sloppy and could be applied both to accounting crimes, tax offences or if you have left a highly classified document at a conference hotel," Amalia Rud Stenlöf, the party's appointee to the committee, said.
The hotel reference alluded to a recent scandal involving Henrik Landerholm, Sweden's National Security Advisor and a childhood friend of Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, who mislaid a security-classed document at a hotel last year.
"I don't want to let the Sweden Democrats arbitrarily define what counts as vital interests," she told TT.
The current grundlagskommittée, or constitution committee, was set up in June 2023 to look at a series of proposed changes to Sweden's constitutional laws.
These included:
- an amendment to make it possible for dual citizens to be stripped of their citizenship if their commit serious crimes or supply false information,
- a new constitutional right to abortion, to have your case heard in court, and general protections against discrimination
- a new limit to freedom of association for criminal gangs, in what circumstances the right to property or to run a business could be limited.
It brings together MPs from each of the parties in parliament with seven experts in areas covered by the inquiry.
To change the constitution, two votes are needed in parliament with an election held in between.
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