The Prosecutor's Office has requested the Supreme Court to lift the precautionary suspension of the right to vote for those naturalized under the so-called grandchildren's law, and, furthermore, to allow affected individuals to appear in the procedure to defend their interests, after the high court gave the parties a 48-hour period to present allegations.
This precautionary suspension implies, according to the process's approach, suspending the right to vote for all naturalized individuals who accessed it through a governmental instruction that develops the grandchildren's law, and the deadline concluded this Thursday, while the Supreme Court plans to rule on the precautionary measures this weekend, as the electoral roll closes this Monday, the 12th, legal sources inform EFE.
The review of 170,000 files, at the center of the conflict
In its brief, the Public Prosecutor's Office asks the Contentious-Administrative Chamber not to carry out the review of the nearly 170,000 files affected by the grandchildren's law, at least during this electoral process.
According to fiscal sources, the new situation derived from the early election may have modified the scenario of balancing conflicting interests that must be assessed to agree or not on precautionary measures, and for this reason, the Prosecutor's Office has urged the court to reconsider the scope of the suspension.
The brief also highlights the serious difficulties, and possible incompatibilities, between the early election and what was agreed in the precautionary measures order, first for reasons of legal certainty and legality, since the census used for these elections is closed as of August 1, with few possibilities of modification, and also because the execution of the order could cause a continuous and progressive suspension of registrations in the census from now until after the elections.
The position of the State Attorney's Office
Added to this position is that of the State Attorney's Office, which has warned that the early election has further increased the "material impossibility" of reviewing the nearly 170,000 files affected by the precautionary measure adopted by the Supreme Court.
The State's legal services emphasize that, if at first it was already warned of the impossibility of reviewing these files when January 1, 2027, was set as the "temporal lapse" to certify them, that material impossibility is now intensified, as the deadline has to be shortened to next Monday, by requirement of the LOREG (Organic Law of the General Electoral Regime).
This Friday, furthermore, Iustitia Europa, one of the plaintiffs, has asked the Supreme Court to suspend the general elections "during the constitutionally available and strictly indispensable period" to execute the precautionary measure imposed by the Chamber, after the brief from the State Attorney's Office, which considers it impossible to complete that review of files in time.
