In recent months, the PP and Vox have spread suspicions about alleged electoral fraud in two directions: postal voting and the right to vote of those naturalized through the Democratic Memory Law. After Isabel Díaz Ayuso took less than an hour once the Cortes were dissolved to recommend that people not vote by mail –a mistrust that the PP spokesperson has disavowed–, the focus is once again on the Supreme Court, which a month ago blocked the right to vote for thousands of people until they prove that they are descendants of exiles. Following the announcement of the 29-N election, both Iustitia Europa and Vox have demanded that the Supreme Court act to ensure that the precautionary measures are complied with, since the electoral body called to vote in the elections was closed two months ago, before the high court took the measures. This morning, the Minister of the Presidency, Fèlix Bolaños, warned that if the Supreme Court maintains the decision, the 29-N census will be "altered" and would lose 400,000 people added to the Electoral Census of Absent Residents –CERA– since 23-J.

The Spanish right and far-right are determined to torpedo the so-called grandchildren law, the provision that the Spanish government included in the Democratic Memory Law so that the descendants of exiles can obtain nationality. The political crusade of the PP and Vox against the legislative text, which they describe as an instrument of Pedro Sánchez to alter the electoral census, has reached the courts and the Supreme Court has already blocked the right to vote for the newly naturalized. But this is not the only political and judicial derivative of the law. At the center of the criticism, and the lawsuits, is the name of Sofía Puente, a career prosecutor, a high-ranking official in the Spanish government and, also, the sister of the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente.

The Supreme Court judge who drafted the interlocutory decision that blocks the right to vote for thousands of Spaniards who obtained nationality by availing themselves of the Democratic Memory Law –adopting the PP's thesis that the Grandchildren Law is a “founded, real and serious danger” that could “gravely affect the objectivity and transparency” of the elections– is an old acquaintance of the independence movement. He is Antonio Narváez, who was a magistrate of the Constitutional Court from 2014 to 2023 and, therefore, played a prominent role during the years of the 'Procés'. His name resonates in Catalonia because in February 2021 he stepped aside from the debate on the amparo appeals of the political prisoners against the October 1st ruling. He had to recuse himself after the pro-independence leaders collectively requested his disqualification due to words he had uttered in November 2017.

Sometimes information aligns in a way that creates front pages that concentrate the contradictions and complexities of a country. It is somewhat what happened to El País this Friday. The main headline is about the Supreme Court's decision to temporarily suspend the so-called grandchildren law, which grants the right to vote and nationality to the descendants of the republican exile: "The Supreme Court gives wings to Vox's theory of electoral fraud". The information is so relevant that the newspaper considered it necessary to also include the editorial on the front page, with a headline that leaves no room for doubt: "Legal absurdity".