The Government has shown this Monday its satisfaction with the decision of the Supreme Court to reject the suspension of the right to vote for the children of people who have been naturalized under the so-called 'grandchildren law', a measure that had been demanded by Vox and Iustitia Europa, and which the Executive interprets as a "brake on the strategy of far-right organizations".
Sources from Pedro Sánchez's team have positively assessed that the high court has not agreed to extend the suspension of voting to more naturalized citizens "thanks to the memory laws approved in Congress".
From Moncloa, however, they have expressed their discomfort because "this reasoning has not been applied" to those who already have their right to vote suspended, that is, the parents of those children, although they trust that "the final decision will end up protecting their rights", given that the Supreme Court maintains the suspension for the 'grandchildren' for now.
According to the same sources, "the decision of the high court represents a brake on the strategy of far-right organizations (Vox and Iustitia Europa) to gradually and massively suppress fundamental rights and cast doubt on the electoral outcome in case the right and the far right do not reach the majority they want". In the view of the Executive, it is "a strategy used by the far right around the world and which here too the PP has taken as its own".
Comparison with Trump’s strategy in the United States.
Government sources link this dynamic to what happened in the United States, where they recall that "just a few days ago Donald Trump was asking for the votes of 20,000 people whom he considered 'non-citizens' not to be counted in order to question in advance the outcome of the elections".
In the Government's opinion, there is an "anti-system drift of the right", which they accuse of "casting doubt on an electoral system that is one of the most guarantees-oriented in the world". They point out that "it has been done with the vote of Spaniards residing abroad, the vote by mail, or the electronic DNI. All the measures have been in force in different electoral processes and have not affected the security or the outcome of the elections. The electoral system has not changed. The right has changed by embracing extremism and conspiracy theories".
The Executive calls for "respect" for the electoral system and for the fundamental rights "of all Spaniards, whatever their origins and convictions".
The Supreme’s ruling, adopted for “legal certainty and electoral stability” in view of the approach of the general elections on 29 November, will finally allow the children of those naturalized under the “law of grandchildren” to vote in those elections.
Reactions from Vox and Iustitia Europa
After the decision became known, the MEP and legal coordinator of Vox, Jorge Buxadé, has argued that the Supreme Court has missed a “n opportunity” to “truly guarantee clean, free and transparent elections for purely practical reasons”.
In a video circulated on the social media network X, Buxadé has argued that “if the parents acquired Spanish nationality through fraud, the children of the parents, the grandparents of the parents, the great-grandchildren of the parents also acquired it through fraud and, therefore, their right to vote in these elections must also be suspended”.
The Vox leader has insisted that, in his view, “the Government knows who they are; it has been devised; it is a massive fraud”. “We have shown in the judicial process that several children of those who acquired through fraud are asserting their right to vote,” he added.
For its part, Iustitia Europa has announced that it will file an appeal against the refusal of the Contentious-Administrative Chamber to extend the suspension of voting to more affected people.
The party has highlighted that, despite the court’s “no,” the Supreme Court “recognizes key arguments” from its lawsuit and has underlined that one of the magistrates has issued a dissenting vote. As the party has stressed, that magistrate “argues that the expansion should have been agreed and warns that correcting the electoral roll after the voting has taken place may prove ineffective”.