French President Francois Hollande on Wednesday scrapped contested constitutional reforms he proposed after the Paris attacks, in an embarrassing U-turn for his already beleaguered government.
The reforms included a plan to strip convicted terrorists of their French nationality, which had sparked a fierce debate over the risk that it would create stateless persons.
Hollande also wanted to enshrine in the constitution a state of emergency adopted after suicide bombers and gunmen from the Islamic State group killed 130 people on November 13.
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