The Supreme Court has agreed to grant a period of three days to all the parties involved in the proceedings on the so-called 'grandchildren's law' so that they may take a position regarding Iustitia Europa's request to extend the precautionary suspension of the right to vote to the children of those who obtained Spanish nationality through this route.
According to several rulings to which Europa Press has had access, the judges decide "not to grant the adoption ex parte of the precautionary measures requested by the party's representation."
However, they do decide to "open a hearing process for the parties appearing in the proceedings so that, for a period of three common days, counted from the notification of this ruling", which concludes next Wednesday according to consulted legal sources, "they may present the arguments they consider appropriate in defense of their rights and legitimate interests".
In addition, due to "the relevance of the issues raised and the electoral summons in force" of the general elections of November 29, the Contentious-Administrative Chamber declares as business days, for the purposes of actions in the precautionary measures piece, the days from October 31 and all those of the month of November.
Iustitia Europa asked the Supreme Court to identify the children of the people who have accessed Spanish nationality through the 'grandchildren's law' and to provisionally suspend "their electoral effects" for those who are registered in the Electoral Census of Absentee Residents (CERA).
The party headed by lawyer Luis María Pardo urged the high court that this provisional suspension be extended "until the Administration completes its individual identification, determines the parent from whom each acquisition derives and specifies the legal route through which the latter obtained Spanish nationality".
The party maintained that "there is a documentary relationship susceptible to immediate verification between the parent", that is, "the route by which he acquired nationality and the subsequent title of the child".
Along these lines, it proposed that the votes may be cast and received, but that "they must remain separated and under custody, with their incorporation into the count suspended until the ordered verification is completed and their electoral situation can be determined".
For this reason, it requested the Supreme Court to order "the immediate identification of all" those registered in the CERA "and of their respective parents, agreeing to suspend the electoral effects with respect to those whose parent is included within the subjective scope of the proceedings", by virtue of which the high court had already agreed to provisionally suspend the voting rights of the beneficiaries of the 'grandchildren law' who do not prove they are descendants of exiles.
From Iustitia Europa they pointed out this Friday that "the same criterion of prudence, traceability and electoral cleanliness must be applied" to the naturalized children, "whose right derives from the prior acquisition of nationality by their parents".