The general secretary of the PP, Miguel Tellado, sent a burofax on Monday to the general director of Spaniards Abroad and Consular Affairs, Carolina de Manueles, to "immediately" comply with all the actions required by the Supreme Court to make effective the suspension of the vote of 163,020 nationalized by the 'grandchildren law', and warns her that he will take her, and even Minister José Manuel Albares, to court if they do not comply.
The main opposition party thus responds to the revelations of EL MUNDO, which has announced that the delay of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs - on which said general directorate depends - in collecting the data to discern the data of those nationalized without the right to vote threatens massive challenges to the results on 29-N.
In fact, the Ministry itself acknowledged to this newspaper that it is "materially impossible" to collect in time all the consular information required by the Supreme Court to discern which of those naturalized achieved it through the law on grandchildren per se and which obtained a passport thanks to an instruction from the Ministry of Justice that subsequently expanded the range of application of the rule.
For the PP, "the passivity, resistance, excuse or obstruction of the authorities" that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would be incurring "can give rise to its personal responsibility, including criminal liability, which the Popular Party will demand before the competent bodies and instances."
And not only her. Also his hierarchical superiors, including the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares. "It is clear that the General Directorate of Spaniards Abroad and Consular Affairs is developing passive and obstructionist behavior aimed at effective disobedience of what was agreed by the Supreme Court", which may entail "personal criminal liability of the head of said body, of her hierarchical superiors (the minister and the Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation) who could have ordered or encouraged this conduct of the Director General and even of the hierarchical inferiors (framed within the General Subdirectorate of Consular Legal Affairs) who were collaborating in this disobedience."
The PP burofax requires the general director "to send to the Electoral Census Office, collecting it from those in charge of the consular Civil Registries, the necessary information to carry out the breakdown" required by the High Court, "with respect to all the people registered in the Electoral Census of Absent Residents (CERA)", distinguishing the files that come from the direct application of the exile cases of the known as 'law of grandchildren' and those initiated and approved thanks to the aforementioned instruction of October 25, 2022.
In addition, the PP requires De Manueles "to order the Consular Registries "to issue the certifications accrediting the status of descendant of exile, referring to August 1, 2026 and without application of the presumption of the instruction" of Sofía Puente. And to communicate to the Electoral Census Office, before the start of sending the electoral documentation, the list of the certifications issued.
This is important, because time is of the essence. Article 75.3 of the Electoral Law requires the Provincial Delegations of the Electoral Census Office to send electoral documentation ex officio to all those registered in the CERA from the eighteenth day after the call, that is, from October 24, 2026.
So the PP insists that "the required actions" in its burofax "must have been carried out, and communicated in writing to this party to the address indicated in the heading, before October 23, 2026."
"If on that date the Electoral Census Office does not have the data that only that General Directorate can provide, the documentation will be sent indiscriminately to the 163,020 voters whose electoral effects are suspended, and failure to comply with the precautionary measures will become irreparable for the elections of November 29, 2026," Tellado's letter warns.
Thirdly, the PP requires the general director to order the publication on the notice board of each Consular Office of the operative part of the latest order of the Supreme Court, with the warning that the order itself makes: that "the interested parties may appear in the present procedure as a co-defendant."
