British-Born Father: Byelection Returns and Kristina Keneally

british-born father: Alexander had been forced to quit over a constitutional ban of dual citizens sitting in Parliament, according to The Chronicle Herald. The former champion tennis player was able to re-contest the electorate he had held since 2010 because he renounced the citizenship he inherited from his British-born father. The conservative Liberal Party candidate John Alexander regained his Sydney electorate, defeating Kristina Keneally, the Las Vegas-born candidate for the centre-left Labor Party who was once leader of the New South Wales state government. The byelection returns Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's government to the single-seat majority it held in October when the High Court created a constitutional crisis by ruling that five lawmakers were ineligible to sit in Parliament. Alexander was regarded as the favourite to win the byelection. They included Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce, who was able to successfully contest a byelection on Dec. 2 because he had renounced the New Zealand citizenship he inherited from his father. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.