Five More Australian MPs Leave Parliament After High Court’s Citizenship Ruling

Senator and former Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory Katy Gallagher with Mrs and Mr Amardeep Singh President of the federation of Indian associations of ACT at Indian Independence Day function at Albert Hall, Canberra, Australia, in Aug. 2015. (Amardeep Singh [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)] via Wikimedia Commons)

SYDNEY—Australia’s High Court has ruled an 11th lawmaker must leave parliament after discovering she was a dual national, the Australian Broadcasting Corp reported on Wednesday, which prompted four more lawmakers to quit amid a widening citizenship crisis.

The court found that opposition Senator Katy Gallagher was a British citizen at the time of her election, and ineligible for office under the constitution, the ABC said.