The Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, has warned that it would be "unthinkable" for there to be "Spaniards with fewer rights than others" in "2027, election year" --autonomous, municipal, and general--, demanding that the Supreme Court rule on the 'grandchildren's law' "as soon as possible".
He has also emphasized that the ruling of the Supreme Court known this Thursday, which provisionally suspends the voting rights of those who have been naturalized under this provision, "affects a large number of Spaniards" and has defended that, in the interest of "the general interest", the condition of Spaniards be recognized "in accordance with the legally established procedures", as he has written on the social network 'X' and has reported Europa Press.
This provision, incorporated into the Democratic Memory Law approved by the Congress of Deputies in 2022, allows access to nationality for the descendants of Spaniards who were forced into exile for political, ideological, or sexual orientation reasons, among other causes.
Torres has expressed the Government's support for the dissenting vote of one of the magistrates, understanding that the precautionary measures agreed upon by the High Court "entail a temporary limitation of a fundamental right".
In this regard, 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". The minister has insisted that the Executive will act "as it should" and "in accordance with the mechanisms established by law to defend a right that all Spaniards have".
On the other hand, the Minister of Justice, Félix Bolaños, has lashed out at PP and Vox for their opposition to the grandchildren's law, accusing them of cutting "sacred" rights such as suffrage, in this case of the "descendants of those Spanish exiles who are now nationals".
In a video released this Thursday on his social networks, Bolaños lamented the precautionary suspension of the vote for people already registered in the Electoral Census of Absentee Residents (CERA) who obtained nationality through the known 'law of grandchildren', following the appeals filed by Iustitia Europa and Vox.
The Justice Minister has maintained 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 stated in a video disseminated through his social networks. "In this case, the most sacred in democracy, to cut the right of some Spaniards to be able to vote, to be able to choose," he has added.
Finally, the minister has guaranteed that the Executive is going to "defend the equality of all Spaniards": "If you are Spanish, you have the right to vote, as is logical, as the Constitution says."