The PP opens an offensive against the 'Grandchildren's Law' after Feijóo's turn and Ayuso's accusations of "engineering with the census"

The Popular Party will take its offensive against the application of the Grandchildren's Law to Congress after several days marked by Alberto Núñez Feijóo's accusations against the Government. Genoa is preparing a battery of oversight initiatives to demand explanations about the process of nationalization of descendants of Spaniards abroad, which the popular party now places at the center of its discourse against Pedro Sánchez.

The PP will request the urgent appearance of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, in the plenary session of Congress. It wants him to report on the functioning of consular civil registries, the prior appointment system, resolution deadlines, and the number of applications received, approved, denied, and pending. It will also request data broken down by consular office and by country.

The offensive comes after Feijóo accused the Executive of wanting to "manufacture new voters" with alleged "electoral engineering". The phrase stirred up the debate because the PP leader himself defended in 2022, during an event in Buenos Aires, a law to recognize nationality for grandchildren of Spaniards abroad. His 2023 electoral program also included that commitment.

Genoa is now trying to focus on the guarantees of the procedure. The party maintains that it supports nationality for descendants of Spaniards, but questions the way in which the Government is processing the files. The popular party speaks of a lack of transparency, consular saturation, and doubts about the criteria applied to resolve applications.

Grupo Palco, Ineco and the PP's doubts about Foreign Affairs

The PP also wants to obtain a report from the State Attorney General's Office on the outsourcing of support services in consulates. Specifically, it demands a copy of the three complete contracting files for Grupo Palco, a public company linked to Cuba, for a total amount of 1,602,217 euros to reinforce the Spanish Consulate in Havana. It will also request the contracting file for Ineco for support tasks in the processing of nationalities.

The popular party also proposes about twenty parliamentary questions to know what criteria are followed to order the files. They want to know if they are resolved by prior appointment date, by formal opening of the file, by complete documentation, by consular office or by another criterion. They will also ask about the human, material and budgetary resources deployed by Foreign Affairs in the consulates with the largest volume of applications.

The move comes on the same day that Isabel Díaz Ayuso has further escalated her tone against the Grandchildren's Law. The Madrid president has asked if Sánchez intends to "nationalize socialists" and has called for "observers now" to monitor the process. She has also announced that she will go to the European Union or to the courts if she deems it necessary.

The offensive fits into a week in which the PP has hardened its electoral discourse. José María Aznar has called for a "national majority" to remove Sánchez. The Grandchildren's Law is now part of that same political battle, although Génova insists that its demand "is not about votes," but about legal guarantees and quality public services.

The Government defends that the measure repairs descendants of Spaniards who lost their legal ties with Spain due to exile and emigration. The PP, which previously supported a similar path, now tries to separate that principle from the specific application that Foreign Affairs is making. The battle will continue in Congress with Albares as the first one singled out.