A majority of Spaniards support the precautionary suspension of the Grandchildren Law by the Supreme Court

A large majority of Spaniards consider that the Supreme Court has done well by provisionally suspending the application of the so-called Nietos Law, promoted by the Government and which sought to open the way to obtaining nationality and the right to vote for all descendants of Spaniards who left the country between 1936 and 1955 for any reason, and not only for reasons of political persecution. According to a survey by Sigma Dos for EL MUNDO, up to 65.1% of respondents agree with said suspension, while 30.7% do not agree with it and 7.8% do not know or do not answer the question.

Specifically, 39.2% of those surveyed maintain that the suspension is "a necessary measure to guarantee the correct configuration of the census and avoid possible distortions in the next electoral processes." That is, up to almost 40% believe that the rule promoted by the Government and its parliamentary partners could distort the results of the polls if those more than 500,000 hypothetical new voters could participate in the next general elections.

Up to 22.3% continue to see the suspension as positive, but in a more moderate position: they are those who subscribe that "it is a reasonable precautionary measure while the criteria used for registration in the census are reviewed and clarified." They do not point as directly to the electoral blow, as the first 39.2% do, but they prefer not to admit those half a million descendants of Spaniards in exile without due guarantees that they are operating in accordance with the law.

On the other side, those who do not support the precautionary suspension decided by the Supreme Court, there are 17.9% who affirm that, as stated in the Sigma Dos survey options, the judicial measure "represents an unjustified limitation on the right to vote of people who have legally acquired Spanish nationality."

And finally, 12.8% of those questioned believe that the suspension "represents judicial intervention that modifies, in practice, the effects of a regulation approved by the legislator." This group points more conceptually to one of the central government's usual arguments in recent times: that of opposition to its measures by the judiciary, the famous lawfare, the instrumentalization of judicial decisions for ideological purposes and objectives.

Support for the first option, the most drastic when it comes to rejecting the measure because it is considered a possible interference in the elections, is almost completely even between women and men: 39.1% for them, 39.1% for them.

The age group that supports it the most is those over 75 years of age: 47.2 of those surveyed in that age range think this way. Strikingly, 45.9% of voters from the Socialist Party itself subscribe to the first two options and therefore believe the suspension of the law promoted by the very party from which voters are claimed is positive - something that certainly does not happen in Sumar, whose voters only reject the suspension by 21.4%; On the other hand, 69.4% of voters of this party reject the judicial measure.

Also striking is the number of non-voting respondents in the previous elections who support that the Grandchildren Law should have been suspended: 63.7% of that, let's say, non-electorate. The party that most opposes the Law through the mouths of its voters is logically the one that has the harshest positions against immigration, Vox: 89.5% of its voters believe that the suspension is desirable. Even so, those of the Popular Party in that same position are not so far away: 88.2%, almost a demostatistical copy.

The survey also asked to what degree Spaniards agree with the possibility that "people who, without living in Spain, can elect the country's political leaders." 46.9% of those surveyed do not agree “at all” with the statement, and 19.2% “a little” agree. "Completely" and "quite a bit" agree with this possibility, in total, 29.9%.