Spain’s Law of Grandchildren Sparks Bitter Row
The court rejected appeals by prosecutors and kept a provisional suspension that bars affected new citizens from voting unless they prove ancestral exile.
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On October 12, 2026, the Supreme Court announced that it would maintain the precautionary measures issued in September with respect to the voting rights of the censuses to...
The Executive recognizes that it lacks tools to locate those nationalized affected by the electoral suspension while seeking in the Constitutional a judicial reverse that compromises its plans for 29N
The Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of the State Attorney against the prudential suspension of the right to vote of persons who have acquired Spanish nationality by the so-called
The government of Pedro Sánchez does not guarantee that it will be able to remove the alleged descendants of exiles from the census before the next general elections on 29 November, as demanded by the Supreme Court. Members of the Council of Ministers say that the elimination of these nationalized ones is a “complex question”. From the Executive ... Continue reading “The government does not guarantee that it can remove the ‘grandchildren’ from t…
The section on administrative litigation that has imposed and maintained the precautionary measures on the right to vote of the grandchild law has had Antonio Narváez as rapporteur, who expressly supported Feijóo in 2023Sectarismo suprema, by Ignacio Escolar La Sala de lo Controversión is considered one of the strategic departments of the Supreme Court. Among many other matters, it is the chamber that oversees the Government and through its hand…
On Monday, October 12, the Supreme Court announced that it would maintain the precautionary suspension of electoral rights for persons who obtained Spanish nationality under the grandchild law, which means that 163,020 people will not be able to vote in the upcoming elections called in advance for Sunday, November 29. The judges state that these citizens will only be able to vote if the consuls issue an “accreditative certificate” that shows tha…
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