MADRID, Spain – “The Popular Party will not let an executive without limits and determined to breach our legal system drag democracy and the law of our country down with it.” With these words the deputy secretary for sectoral coordination and election programme director, Alma Ezcurra, announced three actions by her party in relation to the so-called grandchildren’s law. Immediately, they demand that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs comply with the Supreme Court’s resolution, that is, remove the 163,020 naturalised people registered in the census through the rule. They also ask the Constitutional Court to allow them to appear “to defend an intact census as an electoral guarantee” following the appeal filed by the Ombudsman, and demand explanations over reports pointing to the granting of passports in Mexico to people “without Spanish parents or grandparents.”
Spanish Party Claims ‘Grandchildren’s Law’ Manipulates Overseas Voter Count
The PP has sent a burofax to the director-general of Spaniards Abroad and Consular Affairs, Carolina de Manueles, demanding compliance with the conditions imposed by the Supreme Court for the suspension of the vote under the grandchildren’s law. They point out that it is José Manuel Albares’s department that holds all the data on “those who are not descendants of exiles” yet is “obstructing” the action of justice “to buy time,” as they see it in Génova. Alma Ezcurra has threatened that, in the event of non-compliance, they will demand “all responsibilities from whoever corresponds,” including criminal ones.
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Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares himself acknowledged on Monday that it will be “very difficult” for consulates to verify in time who obtained nationality under the so-called grandchildren’s law and are descendants of exiles so that they can vote in the 29 November elections, as the Supreme Court has requested. The ministry informed Europa Press on Tuesday that a total of 48 consular offices have already completed “totally or partially” the process of verifying who are descendants of exiles, but the PP criticises that more than a month after the High Court issued the precautionary measure “the census office has not received a single piece of data.” “It is a passive, not to say obstructionist, attitude; not acting is a deliberate action of failing to comply with a judicial mandate and it must have consequences,” Ezcurra warned.
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The PP deputy secretary has raised the pressure and given the executive until Thursday because “on Saturday the 24th the sending of votes from the CERA census begins,” warning that “if there is no data, it will also reach the 163,020 voters whose registration in the census has been suspended by the Supreme Court.” Ezcurra also attacked Ombudsman Ángel Gabilondo for going to the Constitutional Court “a month before leaving office” to annul the Supreme Court when “the judicial route has not even finished.” Gabilondo filed an amparo appeal before the court of guarantees against the suspension of the right to vote of those naturalised under this rule who have not accredited their status as exiles, on which it has yet to rule, with Ezcurra arguing that in that appeal “he admits that the problem is the government’s administrative inefficiency.” The PP representative recalls that what was issued are precautionary measures and attacks Gabilondo because “he should defend the people and not the government.”
