The head of the European Jewish Congress (EJC) has called on the Portuguese parliament not to endanger the potential citizenship to Jews of Portuguese descent.
A 2015 law passed by the Portuguese parliament allows for Sephardi Jews to gain citizenship if they could prove their ancestors lived in the country until Inquisition and explusion there in the 15th century.
However, the socialist PS party has tabled amendments to the law which would make citizenship far harder to obtain.
Dr Moshe Kantor, EJC president, urged the Portuguese parliament to ament the “administrative flaws” of the law “without losing sight of, or endangering, what is essential: the opening of a real, achievable path to citizenship of the Portuguese Republic to the descendants of persecuted Portuguese Sephardic Jews.
