The Minister for Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, asked the Supreme Court on Saturday to examine the merits of the ‚Grandchildren’s Law‘ before the general election takes place on 29 November.
Speaking to journalists at the presentation of the PSOE’s Canary Islands candidates for the Congress of Deputies and the Senate, Torres emphasised that people who voted in the most recent regional, general and European elections will now be unable to do so and will have a constitutional right curtailed, which he described as «astonishing».
He has therefore emphasised that what the Supreme Court must do «is to examine the substance of the case before the elections on 29 November take place».
The Grandchildren's Act: Torres warns against second-class voters
«We are faced with a narrative that the right and the far right want to perpetuate and which is being conveyed to Spanish society: that there are first- and second-class Spaniards, namely those who, having already voted, are now unable to do so,» said Torres.
According to the minister, «they’re putting a plaster on before the wound has even appeared and anticipating what’s going to happen, which is the comeback… we’re in the middle of the comeback.»
Supreme Court requests list of 163,020 affected individuals
He also stated that some of the information requested by the Supreme Court has already been provided and that this process will be completed in the coming days, following the Ministry of Foreign Affairs‘ request to the consulates to compile a list of the names of the 163,020 people affected by the application of the Grandchildren’s Law, as requested by the High Court.
Torres pointed out that it is not a «simple» situation, as in many cases «we are talking about actions that are carried out directly, even by hand», he said
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