The organization Hazte Oír has requested the Supreme Court to extend the precautionary suspension of the right to vote to the adult children of those who have obtained Spanish nationality through the so-called 'grandchildren's law'.
According to a document accessed by Europa Press, the association asks the high court to require the Central Electoral Board and the Electoral Census Office to provide details of the registrations of these individuals in the Census of Absentee Residents (CERA), in order to identify them and apply the same precautionary measure to them.
Hazte Oír recalls that in the ruling issued in September by the Administrative Litigation Chamber, which agreed to the temporary suspension of voting for those who do not prove to be descendants of exiles, the Supreme Court noted "a founded, real, and serious danger of affecting the objectivity and transparency of the electoral process".
In its document, the association argues that "this danger persists regarding the children of those affected who, being of legal age, meet the requirements for voting and are listed in the census applicable to the elections of November 29", which is why it demands that the same criteria be applied to them as to the direct beneficiaries of the regulation.
It also warns that if the registration of these children "continues to produce effects without having even been identified, the ruling that orders the separation of the registrations derived" from the 'grandchildren's law' "will not be able to reach those who will have already voted in those elections".
Hazte Oír also emphasizes that the conditions exist for the Supreme Court to resolve quickly, given "the special urgency" of what has been raised. It recalls that "the nominal list of beneficiaries" under the 'grandchildren's law' must be sent by the Government this very week and that "the identification of the children is only useful if it is incorporated into those operations".
For this reason, it demands that the high court order the identification of these descendants and extend to them "the suspension of the electoral effects of their registration in the CERA in the electoral process called" for the upcoming November 29.
The so-called 'grandchildren's law' appears as an additional provision in the Democratic Memory Law, approved in 2022, and opens the door for the descendants of exiles to access Spanish nationality.