The Contentious-Administrative Chamber of the Supreme Court has upheld the precautionary measure requested by Iustitia Europa and Vox against the agreement of the Central Electoral Board, dated July 16, regarding the registration in the Electoral Census of Absent Residents (CERA) abroad of people who have been granted Spanish nationality.
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The Supreme Court has provisionally agreed to suspend the electoral effects of certain registrations linked to the so-called Grandchildren Law. However, the measure is provisional, does not annul nationalities, and will remain in effect until a ruling is issued on the substance of the appeal.
The court clarifies that this suspension does not affect people for whom consular registers have issued a certificate accrediting their status as born outside Spain, of a father or mother, grandfather or grandmother, who were originally Spanish and who had suffered exile for political, ideological, or belief or sexual orientation reasons and who had lost or renounced Spanish nationality.
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The resolution, precautionary until the substance of the matter is resolved, refers to the registrations in the CERA derived from the application of the Democratic Memory Law, popularly known as the Grandchildren Law. This law opened ways for certain descendants of Spaniards, including relatives of exiles, to access Spanish nationality. Therefore, the resolution exempts those who prove to be descendants of exiles.
The Contentious Chamber has determined that the new affected registrations will be suspended once their procedures are completed. Meanwhile, those already registered will not lose their Spanish nationality, but their registrations will have no electoral effects for processes that may be called while the precautionary measure is in force.
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