The Grandchild Law Gave Thousands of Latin Americans Spanish Citizenship. Now a Ruling Suspended Their Right to Vote
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By Pau Mosquera, CNN en Español The decision of the Supreme Court of Spain to suspend cautiously the registration in the Census of Absent Resident Spaniards (CERA) of persons who obtain Spanish nationality by means of the eighth additional provision of the Democratic Memory Law—popularly known as the “grandchildren law” by
The deputy to the director of La Vanguardia maintains that the precautionary decision of the High Court already affects some 400,000 new Spanish citizens and warns that the debate faces the judicial interpretation of the rule with a decision previously endorsed by Parliament
On September 10, 2026, the Supreme Court issued an order that cautiously suspends the registration in the Electoral Census of Absent Residents (CERA) of those who acquired Spanish nationality under the eighth additional provision of the Democratic Memory Act of 2022. Thus, their right to vote has been suspended. The resolution deserves a serene analysis, alien to polarization. Whoever subscribes to these lines wrote in 2008, as Director General …
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