SYDNEY (Reuters) - Powerful Australian minister Matthew Canavan on Tuesday became the third politician forced to step aside over a question of dual citizenship, saying he was unaware his mother had taken out Italian citizenship for him when he was 25.
Australian politicians are not eligible to be elected to parliament if they hold dual or plural citizenship.
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