Sweden’s parliament has approved a constitutional change to allow the citizenship of dual nationals to be revoked if they obtained it fraudulently or were convicted of crimes threatening national interests.

The outgoing centre-right government, led by Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and propped up in parliament by the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats, said last year it was mulling ways to revoke the citizenships of dual nationals convicted in organised crime and gang cases. It needed a change to the constitution, which requires two votes in parliament separated by an election, and Wednesday’s vote was the second.

The outgoing government had been working on a bill but which is not yet completed. It will therefore be up to the next government to decide on how to proceed — for instance on defining which crimes could result in a revoked citizenship.