The Supreme Court suspends the right to vote of those newly naturalized due to the grandchildren law

The Supreme Court notified this Thursday the arguments why last Tuesday it agreed to suspend the right to vote of those who had obtained Spanish nationality thanks to the facilities of the grandchildren law. "There is a risk of alteration of the electoral roll through an exceptional increase in the number of new registrations in the Electoral Roll of Absent Residents," state the documents that estimate the precautionary measure claimed by Iustitia Europa and Vox.

The decision was adopted by five of the six judges of the Fourth Contentious-Administrative Section. A judge has issued a dissenting vote against the suspension.

The Chamber considers that "the extraordinary increase" in the number of registered voters, together with the fact that this number "is constantly increasing, with figures of the extraordinary magnitude exposed", are circumstances that must be assessed, "since they can affect the transparency of the electoral process and the confidence of citizens in its results, in addition to generating a well-founded circumstance of uncertainty about the electoral result."