The Supreme Court rejects extending the ban on the right to vote to the children of those nationalized by the 'grandchildren law'

The Supreme Court has refused to extend the prohibition of the right to vote to the children of those naturalized through the 'grandchildren law', to whom it has temporarily denied the possibility of participating in Spanish elections. The Fourth Contentious-Administrative Chamber thus denies the precautionary measures that Iustitia Europa and Vox had requested to also withdraw the possibility of voting for the children of those who gained Spanish nationality through the eighth additional provision of the democratic memory law, approved in 2022.

According to the High Court, the same Section has also rejected the allegations raised by "several associations and individuals", who appeared against the precautionary measures adopted by the court in the orders of September 10 and October 12, in which it suspended registration in the Census of Absent Residents Abroad (CERA), and, therefore, their right to vote, for people who obtained Spanish nationality through this 'grandchild law' and who They could not prove that they are descendants of Spanish exiles with very specific conditions: that their father, mother, grandfather or grandmother were born in Spain and that they had suffered exile for "political, ideological or belief or sexual identity orientation" reasons and that they had lost or renounced their nationality with that flight.

According to Foreign Affairs, only 901 of the 163,355 people nationalized by the 'grandchildren law' were able to prove that exile status "certified by the consuls" and, in principle, will be able to vote in the 29-N elections.