The Minister of Culture and number 2 of Comuns-Front Ampli for Barcelona, Ernest Urtasun, has positively assessed the resolution made public this Monday by the Supreme Court, which has rejected suspending the right to vote of the children of those who obtained nationality through the “law of grandchildren.” In this way, these descendants will be able to participate in the general elections, unlike the grandchildren, who are excluded.
"All these maneuvers to try to prevent citizens with the right to vote from voting seem to me to be completely out of place and, therefore, any decision that allows them to vote is going in the right direction," he said in statements in Lleida, where he appeared alongside the candidate for Lleida, Montse Cortasa, and the councillor, Laura Bergès.
Urtasun has stressed that the “law of grandchildren” grants nationality and the right to vote to the descendants of people who left Spain as a result of exile during Francoism: "And our legal regulations are very clear: if someone has nationality, they have the right to vote."
Criticism of the withdrawal of olive oil
The minister also addressed the decision by the Ministry of Agriculture to withdraw part of olive oil production, an action which, as he emphasized, has had a "very large impact" in Lleida and which he considers not to be appropriate.
He criticized it as a general measure that affects the entire producing sector equally: "It is not fair because a large olive oil producer can adapt better to a withdrawal of the product, can adapt better financially to fluctuations in the market, but a small agricultural cooperative cannot."