The Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, has emphasized that it would be "unthinkable" for there to be "Spaniards with fewer rights than others" in "2027, election year" --autonomous, municipal, and general--, for which he has called on the Supreme Court to rule on the known 'grandchildren's law' "as soon as possible".
Torres has pointed out that the ruling of the Supreme Court made public this Thursday, which provisionally suspends the voting rights of those who have been naturalized under this provision, "affects a large number of Spaniards". In this context, he has argued that, in the name of "the general interest", the recognition of the condition of Spaniards "in accordance with the legally established procedures" must be guaranteed, as he has written on 'X' and has disseminated by Europa Press.
The so-called 'grandchildren's law', incorporated into the Democratic Memory Law approved by the Congress of Deputies in 2022, opens the way to access Spanish nationality for the descendants of those who were forced to exile for political, ideological, or sexual orientation reasons, among other circumstances.
The minister has expressed the Government's support for the dissenting vote made by one of the magistrates, understanding that the precautionary measures agreed upon by the High Court "entail a temporary limitation of a fundamental right".
In the same vein, he has stressed that "no one can presume the voting intention of Spaniards" nor "deny such a fundamental right in democracy as is the vote". Torres has reiterated that the Executive will act "as it should" and "in accordance with the mechanisms established in the law to defend a right that all Spaniards have".
At the same time, the Minister of Justice, Félix Bolaños, has lashed out at PP and Vox for their opposition to the grandchildren's law and has accused them of trying to cut "sacred" rights such as suffrage, in this case of the "descendants of those Spanish exiles who are now nationals".
In a video disseminated this Thursday on his social networks, Bolaños has shown his rejection of the precautionary suspension of the vote for those who were already registered in the Electoral Census of Absent Residents (CERA) and had obtained nationality through the so-called 'grandchildren's law', following the appeals filed by Iustitia Europa and Vox.
The Minister of Justice has stated that the right and the far-right are "casting doubt on democracy" and resorting to social laws "because they are expansions of rights."
"Every time the right and the far-right achieve something, they show us their little paw. We already know what they want, to cut rights," Bolaños has affirmed in a video disseminated through his social networks. "In this case, the most sacred in democracy, cutting the right of some Spaniards to be able to vote, to be able to choose," he added.
Finally, the minister has insisted that the Government will "defend the equality of all Spaniards": "If you are Spanish, you have the right to vote, as is logical, as the Constitution says."