Vox has registered before the Constitutional Court (TC) a written statement of appearance in which it requests that the appeal presented by the Ombudsman, Ángel Gabilondo, against the decisions of the Supreme Court regarding the registrations in the Electoral Census of Absent Residents (CERA) not be admitted for processing.
The Ombudsman filed an appeal for protection before the TC against the resolution of the Supreme Court that suspended the voting rights of those who obtained nationality thanks to the 'grandchildren's law', accompanying it with a request for extremely urgent measures, as detailed by the institution in a statement released this Friday.
Vox argues, however, that the Ombudsman's appeal is "premature" as it understands that the ordinary judicial route has not yet been exhausted. In the document, which Europa Press has accessed, the party points out that the deadline for the affected parties to make allegations will remain open until October 22.
Additionally, the party claims that "no current constitutional injury has been accredited" nor has "the special constitutional significance of the appeal" been sufficiently explained.
According to the document, the appeal "is limited to disagreeing with a weighting that Chamber Three made twice, in a reasoned manner and with a particular vote," and Vox emphasizes that the decisions adopted by the Supreme Court "seek to preserve the legality, objectivity, and transparency of the electoral census, without nullifying Spanish nationality or establishing a definitive exclusion of the affected voters."
In the same vein, it recalls that the High Court appreciated a "founded, real, and serious danger of potentially severely affecting the objectivity and transparency of the electoral process."
Consequently, Vox requests the Constitutional Court to agree to the inadmissibility of the appeal or, alternatively, its dismissal, and to also reject the extremely urgent and precautionary measures requested by the Ombudsman, estimating that they "could compromise the correct formation of the census in view of the general elections on November 29."
The so-called 'grandchildren's law' is part of the Democratic Memory Law and allows access to nationality, among other cases, to the descendants of Spaniards who were forced into exile during the Civil War and the Franco dictatorship for political reasons and whose children or grandchildren lost their nationality as a result of that exile.