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Spanish PM Looks Abroad for the Votes He Is Losing at Home

The Spanish so-called Grandchildren Law has ceased to be a matter of historical memory and has become a central issue of electoral power. The mechanism, included in the 2022 Law of Historical Memory, allows Spanish nationality to be granted to descendants of exiles from the Civil War and the Franco era. On paper, it is “historical reparation.” In practice, it is a massive expansion of the electorate abroad at a politically critical moment for Pe…

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Center

The president of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has continued to charge against the 'grandchildren' law' of the government, which has already granted nationality to more than half a million people. However, he has ruled out that the intention is a 'pucherazo' and re-qualifies the action of the executive as 'electoral engineering'. "Pucherazo is one thing and we denounce that there is electoral engineering, that the law is done unilater…

·Madrid, Spain
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Lean Left

Alberto Núñez Feijóo and the PP have been critical of the grandkids law for months and the possibility that it can alter the electoral census by granting Spanish nationality to almost 2.5 million people who now reside mostly abroad and who could vote in the next generals without having been in Spain.Continue reading...

·Granada, Spain
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Center

More than 544,000 children and grandchildren of exiles have Spanish nationality approved by democratic law.

Lean Right

The debate has been on the table for several months within the PP, but in recent weeks the alarms have gone off. While the government approves the macroeconomic picture that should accompany the General Budgets – this time it does say that they will be presented – and the runrunrunrún about when the elections will continue, several popular leaders have insisted to Alberto Núñez Feijóo that they should focus on the 2.5 million people who could ob…

·Spain
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Lean Left

The Law on Democratic Memory, in force since October 2022, extended the criteria laid down in the previous regulations of 2007, for the acquisition of Spanish nationality by descendants of retaliatory Francoism living abroad. The explanatory statement presents it as a “reparative measure of the people who suffered exile” and sources of the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory insist that it is an “act of justice” and “restitution…

·Spain
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Lean Left

The government defends the 'grandchildren' law' for justice and sees Feijóo "desperate"

·Buenos Aires, Argentina
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El Diario Montañes broke the news on Monday, June 29, 2026.
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