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The Supreme Court Suspends the Electoral Effects of a "Grandchildren Law" that Had Already Generated Nearly Half a Million New Voters

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The Corner The Third Chamber (Administrative Litigation) of the Supreme Court has issued a precautionary suspension of the electoral effects linked to the “Grandchildren Law” (eighth additional provision of the Democratic Memory Law). The decision comes in response to appeals filed against a ministerial instruction that arbitrarily broadened the criteria applied in consulates following the law’s entry into force. The instruction in question appl…

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The Electoral Board will have to oversee which new voters credit the exile and which have benefited from the maneuver to avoid that requirement. More information: The Electoral Board will have to oversee that the census office prevents the false descendants of exiles from voting.

·Spain
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The Fourth Section of the Supreme requires that exile be certified on a case-by-case basis in the 'grandchildren' law' and suspends the electoral effects in the CERA. The entry The Supreme Court requires consular records to prove the real link with exile in the 'grandchildren' law' first appears in Moncloa.

This week, the Supreme Court was cautiously paralysing the right to vote for persons already registered in the Electoral Census of Absent Residents (CERA) who obtained citizenship through the so-called 'grandchildren' law', in an unprecedented decision that has raised blisters within the central executive branch. The schism between Justice and Government has been reopened as a result of this decision, which the High Court bases on the fact that …

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They are Argentines but have Spanish nationality or are still waiting to obtain it, and they understand that the Supreme Court's decision is a "restriction of rights" and a lack of recognition to the exile of their grandparents or great-grandparents: "We are second-class citizens"ARCHIVO - Law of Democratic Memory: everything you need to know to obtain Spanish nationality The decision of the Spanish justice to suspend the right to vote of the de…

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IU calls for the mobilization of Spanish citizenship abroad against the “democratic outrage” that, in its view, the Supreme Court’s decision [...]

·Madrid, Spain
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Proceso Digital broke the news on Friday, September 11, 2026.
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