The Minister for Digital Transformation and Public Function, Óscar López, has lashed out against the Supreme Court's decision to temporarily suspend the so-called Grandchildren's Law, a regulation that contemplated granting Spanish nationality to descendants of exiles. López has described this ruling as a "savagery" and a "democratic outrage" and has denounced that "there are judges who are patriots" determined to "overthrow the Government."
During an interview on the program 'La Hora de la 1' on TVE, reported by Europa Press, the minister emphasized that, although there is a judiciary in Spain that works to ensure that justice is truly just, there are also "judicial sectors that insist on bringing down the Government every day." In his opinion, these sectors act encouraged by the discourse of the Popular Party.
López has directly blamed the PP for constantly feeding "the conspiracy theory," imitating the far-right, by claiming that the Executive's objective with the Grandchildren's Law would be to manipulate the electoral roll for future elections, granting voting rights to the newly naturalized. The minister firmly rejects this approach and frames it as a political strategy of the right and the far-right.
As a counterargument, he recalled that in the general elections of 2023, the counting of the external vote (CERA) ended up harming the PSOE: the seat that changed hands after the final count was a socialist one in Madrid, which forced Pedro Sánchez to depend on the support of Junts for the investiture. If that seat had not been lost, the abstention of the Catalan independentist formation would have been enough. "The last time there was a vote in this country, the CERA benefited the PP," he emphasized.
In this line, López maintains that there are "patriots" in the Supreme Court who are doing "everything possible to overthrow this Government" and who position themselves against laws approved by Parliament, even with the backing of the Popular Party itself. He also recalled the famous rallying cry of José María Aznar and stated: "No one is going to take the cry of Aznar out of my head that whoever can do it, should do it."
The minister has accused the PP of having allowed the largest recent territorial crisis, the independence process in Catalonia, to be unleashed under a popular government. He also reproaches them for having moved that conflict from the political arena to the strictly judicial one. In his view, some sectors do not forgive the PSOE for having tried to reverse that judicialization and return the problem to the political sphere.
Alert for a right that "has lost its papers"
Under the heading of CONCERNED BECAUSE THE RIGHT "HAS LOST ITS PAPERS", López has confessed to feeling "truly concerned" about the attitude of a right that, according to him, "has lost its papers" and whose end would be "to overthrow this Government by any means necessary". He has also expressed concern about the existence of "lone wolves" in the judiciary and about "sectors" that, he claims, respond to Aznar's call.
The minister reproaches these sectors for self-proclaiming defenders of Spain and contrasts that idea with his vision of what it means to protect the country: to maintain an economic growth higher than that of Germany, to continue creating jobs, to strengthen the pension fund, and to improve Spain's international image thanks to positions such as opposition to the wars against Gaza or Iran. Likewise, he has claimed the country's role as a vanguard in the fight against climate change and in the regulation of artificial intelligence.