Pedro Sánchez has accused the right this Sunday of trying to block the vote of some 400,000 descendants of Spanish exiles during Francoism and has asked the Supreme Court to stop what he described as an “attempted outrage”.
The President of the Government launched the request at a rally in Ponferrada and placed the so-called grandchildren's law at the center of the clash, a path that, according to his approach, could allow this group to exercise their right to vote. Sánchez also maintained that these citizens have already participated in several elections since 2023.
“From here I ask the Supreme Court to stop this attempted outrage by Feijóo and Abascal because in a democracy the right to vote is not prohibited, it is guaranteed,” Sánchez affirmed, in a message addressed to the leadership of PP and Vox. The phrase raised the tone of the event, although it did not clarify by itself what specific decision the high court would now have to adopt.
The socialist leader defended the participation of these descendants and contrasted their situation with that of the “grandchildren of the Franco regime,” by posing the question of whether some will be able to vote while others will not. This comparison, however, is part of his political accusation and does not replace any institutional pronouncement on the census or the electoral procedure.
Sánchez frames the clash as a struggle between progress and reaction
During his speech, the president appealed to the “strength of the people” to sustain a progressive Executive against an eventual government of PP and Vox, which he described as a project of “reaction, cuts and much resentment.”
He also stated that the project of Abascal and Feijóo “smells of mothballs” and demanded “four more years of progress and fewer insults” from the right and the far-right. For now, the conflict remains open between the political denunciation and the eventual response of the Supreme Court.
