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		</div><p>An Australian government minister has quit the cabinet because his mother told him he might be Italian &#8211; and therefore ineligible to be an MP.</p>
<p>Resources minister Matt Canavan’s shock announcement followed the recent resignations of two senators who discovered days apart that they had technically never been elected because they are dual citizens.<br />
Australia’s constitution states that a &#8220;citizen of a foreign power&#8221; is not eligible to be elected to parliament.</p>
<p>Mr Canavan said his mother contacted him last week with news that he might be Italian after publicity surrounding the resignations of the minor Greens party’s co-deputy leaders Scott Ludlam and Larissa Waters.<br />
Mr Canavan’s predicament is embarrassing for Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who had ridiculed the Greens over their bungled screening of ineligible candidates, and could force a cabinet reshuffle.</p>
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