A Vietnamese lawmaker has been dismissed from the country’s National Assembly on Sunday after she was found to have violated regulations around nationality, according to Vietnamese media reports.

Specifically, Nguyen Thi Nguyet Huong, holds passports from Vietnam and the Republic of Malta, a country in Europe.

The 46-year-old was found guilty of flouting the Law on Vietnamese Nationality, which prohibits Vietnamese citizens from having dual citizenship, Thanh Nien News website cited Nguyen Hanh Phuc, the spokesman of the National Election Council, as saying.

Mr Nguyen also said the Vietnamese MP did not declare her Maltese citizenship in her election nomination.

On Sunday afternoon, the National Election Council unanimously voted to refuse to recognise Huong as a member of the 14th National Assembly.

Tuoi Tre News website reports that Huong was among 496 people elected as a member of the 14th National Assembly in May, to serve the 2016 to 2021 term.

She was a member of the lawmaking National Assembly for the two previous five-year terms.

Last week Trinh Xuan Thanh, former deputy chairman of the Hau Giang Province People’s Committee, had been dismissed after being found accountable for massive losses at a major state-owned oil company and censured for illegally using a government license plate on his private car, Thanh Nien News reports.

– TiVi Tuan-san