The spokesperson for Immigration of the PP in Congress, Sofía Acedo, expressed this Wednesday her confidence that the Supreme Court "will bring a bit of common sense" in the application of the so-called 'grandchildren's law', the additional provision of the Law of Democratic Memory that allows descendants of Spanish exiles to access Spanish nationality.
Acedo intervened in a conference organized by the PP in the Lower House, coinciding with the announcement of the Supreme Court that on September 7 it will hold an oral and public hearing to study the precautionary measures proposed by the organization Iustitia Europa. This entity demands the precautionary suspension of the registrations in the Electoral Census of Absent Residents (CERA) associated with the 'grandchildren's law' due to its "electoral effects".
The case reached the High Court after Iustitia Europa challenged the agreement in which the Central Electoral Board (JEC) declared itself incompetent to halt the process of drafting the CERA.
The JEC then defended that the electoral administration "cannot replace the legislator's criterion", which established by law "the conditions and the procedure" for emigrated persons to exercise this right.
However, four of the thirteen members of the JEC issued a dissenting vote considering that the body not only can, but is obliged to intervene in the face of the "irregular increase" of the electoral census that, in their view, has occurred because the instruction issued in 2022 by the Ministry of Justice to apply the 'grandchildren's law' allowed the naturalization of more people than those contemplated in the Law of Democratic Memory that it intended to develop."
Nationality and scope of the 'grandchildren's law'
"Through an instruction, the Government has opened the door for anyone to be able to naturalize," Acedo criticized, aligning herself with the dissenting members of the JEC and emphasizing that this was not "what the General Courts approved".
The 'popular' spokesperson emphasized that the PP did not support the Law of Memory and insisted on the need to respect what emanates from the General Courts. "We have to start with a Government that complies with the law and does not invent instructions to try to grant nationality to those who do not correspond," she added.
Likewise, he has emphasized that "nationality is an honor, it is deserved, it is felt" and that, in his opinion, "being Spanish" is "much more than an administrative document" that is given to you by "the current government." "This has to be felt and there has to be a real connection with our country," he concluded.