The president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has criticized the decision of the Supreme Court to suspend the right to vote for citizens who obtained nationality through the known 'grandchildren's law'. In his opinion, one should not fear the ballot boxes, but rather the parties that seek to "curtail" fundamental rights.
In an interview broadcast this Monday on the program 'El Intermedio' and reported by Europa Press, Sánchez asked: "Can a fundamental right of citizenship like the right to vote for 400,000 Spaniards really be suspended?".
The head of the Executive emphasized that the Democratic Memory Law, which supports the naturalization of descendants of Spaniards, has been in force since 2022 and, since then, several elections have been held, both general and regional and municipal, "and there has been no problem".
Regarding overseas voting, he recalled that in the general elections of July 2023, it was the PP that prevailed among residents abroad and obtained a seat that, before the counting of those ballots, belonged to the PSOE.
Sánchez insisted that "One should not fear the vote; what one should fear are those political parties, like the PP and Vox, that aim to curtail and suppress citizens' rights".
Therefore, he defended that it is unacceptable for there to be "first-class and second-class citizens" simply because some "fear losing the elections in 2027".