According to protothema.gr, within seven days, Interior minister Evripidis Stylianidis and deputy minister Charalambos Athanassiou are called to draw anew the provisions declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Administrative Court.

According to Simos Kedikoglou, government spokesman, the so called “Ragousis law” which grants citizenship and voting rights to second-generation immigrants, would be “replaced with new legislation compatible with the decision of the Council of State.”

According to so-called Ragousis Law, passed in 2012 those born to immigrant parents and legally resident in Greece for five years to get citizenship if they have studied at a Greek school for at least six years.

Both junior coalition partners criticized Anotnis Samaras’ move to move on the issue before the court’s decision was made public.

Socialist PASOK said such reforms “should not be rushed or taken without the agreement of all coalition partners” while Democratic Left described as unjustifiable any reforms that “yield to racism and xenophobia” and said that the link to the country of immigrants who were born and grew up in Greece must be recognized, according to Kathimerini.

The Council of State ruled on the matter after a Greek citizen lodged a complaint about the Ragousis law in April 2010. The ruling will not automatically lead to the law being repealed as it could be appealed at the Supreme Court.