The Supreme Court says that the amnesty law is "a real and serious danger" of conditioning the elections

BarcelonaThe Supreme Court considers that what is known as the grand-children's law "generates a well-founded, real, and serious danger of seriously affecting the objectivity and transparency of the electoral process," which could cause "irreversible damage" to the elections and, therefore, to an "essential element for the rule of law." "There is a risk of alteration of the electoral census through an exceptional increase in the number of new registrants in the electoral census of absent residents (CERA)," the ruling adds.

With these arguments, the contentious-administrative chamber justifies the suspension of the vote for people who have obtained Spanish nationality for being children or grandchildren of citizens of the State who left the country between July 18, 1936, and December 31, 1955. Specifically, the Supreme Court's decision leaves in limbo the right to vote of some 2.4 million people who have requested to avail themselves of the grand-children's law and asks for more time to study more thoroughly the appeal, which has been presented by VOX and Iustitia Europa —a extra-parliamentary party habitual in cases involving the PSOE–.

In fact, the Supreme Court has once again acceded to the claims of the PP and the Spanish far-right and, conversely, suspends a law promoted by the previous government of Pedro Sánchez. Thus, while Vox and the Popular Party applauded the Spanish court's ruling last Tuesday —the arguments that came to light this Thursday were still missing—, the Moncloa has harshly criticized its decision.