Vox has claimed before the Supreme Court the precautionary suspension of "the processing of new automatic registrations" in the Electoral Census of Absent Residents (CERA) "derived from files for acquiring Spanish nationality" due to the 'grandchildren's law', understanding that its application will generate "irreversible damage".
In the document submitted, which Europa Press has accessed, the party argues that "every time a new voter who does not meet the cumulative requirements" of the known 'grandchildren's law' is registered in the electoral census, "a legal situation is being produced that violates the right to vote".
According to Vox, this alleged violation affects "each and every one of the Spaniards, whose vote and its real effects will be diluted in a possible morass of votes cast by those who lack the right to be registered as voters".
The party led by Santiago Abascal argues that the practical application of the 'grandchildren's law' —introduced as an additional provision in the Democratic Memory Law approved by the Government in 2022— would have far exceeded the subjective scope intended by the legislator. "By its very nature, the damages that occur are irreversible," the text emphasizes.
In its appeal, Vox denounces that an instruction from the General Directorate "modifies and extends the content" of the norm, "creating a new assumption for the acquisition of nationality, modifying the legal nature of the mode of acquisition, establishing an exemption from the obligation to renounce the previous nationality".
The lawyer and MEP of Vox Jorge Buxadé considers that this instruction "is probably illegal" and warns that "this illegality is by no means innocuous from the point of view of the right to vote".
Calls for control over the CERA and precautionary measures
In the document sent to the Supreme Court, the party criticizes that "the expansion of the concept of 'exile' and the application of the norm to children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren without any proof of political persecution has not occurred through legislative reform, but through internal administrative instructions that have dissolved to the point of making it unrecognizable, the will of the legislator".
For Vox, this situation is "urgent" and justifies "the adoption of a precautionary measure, which could also be the suspension, as long as no new voter is registered in the CERA until a ruling is made, thus avoiding the processing of new automatic registrations in the CERA derived from files for acquiring Spanish nationality" by the 'grandchildren's law'.
The party warns that "the CERA could incorporate, for the next general elections, a volume of new voters equivalent to the census population of several complete Spanish provinces, with a direct and potentially decisive impact on the allocation of seats".
Furthermore, it warns: "Taking into account that it is at the discretion of the interested party the constituency where they could be incorporated, there is undoubtedly a very serious alteration of the configuration of the electoral roll".
For this reason, Vox demands as a solution "the mere administrative control of the monthly updates of the census" and maintains that "the risks and damages to the public interest at stake are null" because, once the court issues a ruling, the suspension "will be lifted allowing the registration in the electoral roll of the applicants in accordance with the ruling".