The Government alleges before the Supreme Court that it is now "materially impossible" to also suspend the voting of the children of those who benefit from the 'grandchildren law'

The State Attorney's Office has opposed the extension of the suspension of voting to the children of those who achieved nationality through the law on grandchildren and who had also registered on the electoral roll of residents abroad.

Among the reasons given by the legal representation of the Government is the "material impossibility" of proceeding with the identification of this group, given the advanced deadlines for the 29-N electoral call.

The letter to the Contentious Chamber of the High Court recalls that the Government has needed "a month and a half" of enormous effort in the consulates to prepare the list of those who obtained nationality in accordance with the law on grandchildren without having documented that they were exiled.

Complying with the Supreme Court's order to deliver the list last week required the participation "of practically all of the 172 consular offices with civil registration functions, the implementation of provisional data transmission systems, the urgent development of specific computer tools, the mobilization of additional personnel, the cancellation of previously authorized vacations, the express requirement to provide services during weekends and holidays, the authorization of temporary closures to the public of numerous offices and the priority reallocation of human resources normally intended for the ordinary provision of consular services".

Repeating the task with a new, even larger group - almost 190,000 people - "is materially incompatible with the available resources and with the maintenance of essential public services that consular offices must continue to provide."

The extension of the precautionary measure requested by Iustitia Europa and by Vox requested to block the vote of another of the blocks to which the Democratic Memory Law of 2022 gave the right to request nationality. This time not to the exiles - or presumed exiles - but to their children and, furthermore, to those who obtained passports in accordance with the previous Historical Memory law, approved in 2007.

This is a total of 189,678 people, compared to the list of 163,020 nationalized by the grandchildren law that Justice and Foreign Affairs had to examine. These almost 190,000 include both children of nationalized people in accordance with the first law (promoted by the Government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero) and the second, the law on grandchildren. The Legal Profession highlights that the first block should, in any case, be left out of the precautionary measure, because the validity of the Historical Memory Law of 2007 has not been questioned in the procedure.

To these practical objections, the State Attorney's Office adds those that it already stated from the beginning in the review of the law on grandchildren: that a precautionary measure that involves blocking a fundamental right such as political participation is not justified.