Australian court disqualifies Deputy PM over dual citizenship

Sydney, Oct 27: An Australian court ruled on Friday that the Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce was ineligible to sit in Parliament as he held dual citizenship when elected. The High Court ruling has threatened the government´s slim majority, the media reports here said. Barnaby Joyce was among seven politicians embroiled in a crisis after falling afoul of a previously obscure constitutional rule that bars dual citizens from sitting in Parliament. As a result of the High Court decision, the government will lose its one-seat majority in the House of Representatives. UNI