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Eduardo Gonz\u00e1lez<\/strong><\/h6>\n

The president of the Spanish Association of Diplomats (ADE), Alberto Virella, has asked the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Justice to take the initiative to explain to citizens the existing regulations for registering as residents in Spain for those who acquire Spanish nationality, following the controversy sparked by complaints from the People’s Party (PP) and Vox regarding the alleged “electoral” use of the Democratic Memory Law, better known as the “Grandchildren Law.”<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The president of the People’s Party, Alberto N\u00fa\u00f1ez Feij\u00f3o, has denounced this week that the “Grandchildren Law” is an “electoral ploy” implemented by the Prime Minister, Pedro S\u00e1nchez, to grant voting rights to 2.5 million people in a very short period. He also asserted that “there is a great deal of arbitrariness” in the procedure for registering new Spanish citizens on the electoral roll, which could lead to the assignment of provinces to these new citizens based on the electoral needs of the Socialist Party (PSOE).<\/p>\n

For her part, the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel D\u00edaz Ayuso, warned on Monday that “every consul and every official who grants citizenship to someone who does not deserve it must know that they too would be acting illegally, and that serves as our warning.” Likewise, the Secretary General of Vox in Congress, Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Figaredo, declared this week that this law constitutes a \u201cslow-motion coup\u201d and demanded that Spaniards residing abroad be denied the right to vote by mail.<\/p>\n

In statements to The Diplomat<\/em>, Alberto Virella warned this Friday that naturalized citizens are assigned provinces based on three criteria: their last place of residence in Spain, if any, or, in the case of foreigners, their last residence in Spain; the family’s place of origin of the ancestor who had to leave Spain, in the case of descendants born abroad; and a Spanish town with which the applicant can document some kind of connection or personal link. \u201cIt is not contemplated that, due to a default or lack of a specific province, the consul general should decide\u201d in this regard, he asserted.<\/p>\n

In Virella’s opinion, these kinds of controversies are largely due to the \u201cindifference and neglect\u201d of public authorities. \u201cWhy isn\u2019t the Ministry of Foreign Affairs explaining the procedures for registering new Spanish citizens, or even those who aren\u2019t so new? Because the same rules apply to the many Spaniards who left after the 2008 financial crisis,\u201d he asked. \u201cThis is a clear case that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, or the Ministry of Justice, should explain. Why aren\u2019t they?\u201d<\/p>\n

In response to Virella’s statements, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs affirmed this Friday that, “in recent days,” it has sent information regarding the Democratic Memory Law to “a large number of media outlets,” including The Diplomat in Spain, and assured that it “remains open to providing information to all media outlets that request it.” “Furthermore, the Ministry’s website<\/a> features a section on the Democratic Memory Law in Foreign Affairs, available to everyone,” it added.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe \u2018vacatio legis\u2019 of 2007<\/strong><\/h5>\n

In any case, the president of the ADE admitted that there is a \u201cpositive aspect\u201d to this controversy, and that is that, \u201cfinally,\u201d it will help \u201ccitizens realize that the public administration has an international presence, that the General State Administration also exists beyond our borders.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Virella, the major underlying problem when addressing the \u201cGrandchildren Law\u201d is the \u201cenormous workload of the foreign service.\u201d \u201cIn 2000 there were one million Spaniards abroad; currently there are 3.2 million, to which we can add those covered by the Grandchildren Law,\u201d but the human resources currently \u201care the same as they were 26 years ago.\u201d \u201cIn 2007, the Consulate General in Argentina handled 60,000 nationality applications and took thirteen years to process them; \u201cIn 2022, it has served 640,000 people. How long will it take with the same resources?\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

All of this demonstrates, he warned, the \u201clack of foresight in the Democratic Memory Law.\u201d \u201cThe 2007 Historical Memory Law stipulated, in its additional provision on granting nationality, a one-year \u2018vacatio legis,\u2019 a one-year postponement before its entry into force so that the public administration and the external network could prepare,\u201d but \u201cthe 2022 law has no \u2018vacatio legis\u2019; it came into force the very day after its publication and, moreover, greatly expands the potential number of people who can benefit from it: any grandchild of a Spanish citizen who had to leave Spain even before the Civil War,\u201d explained Alberto Virella.<\/p>\n

Regarding the accusations made by D\u00edaz Ayuso against consulate officials, the president of the ADE warned that these workers \u201cdedicate all their time\u201d to They are doing their job and are \u201con the front lines of pressure from citizens who complain\u201d about problems in the Foreign Service. \u201cThe Ministry of Foreign Affairs is responsible, not them, because it hasn’t allocated resources to the consular network adapted to its needs,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Following the PP’s complaints, Foreign Minister Jos\u00e9 Manuel Albares stated this Wednesday on the TVE program \u2018Ma\u00f1aneros 360\u2019 that \u201cwhat the Popular Party and Mr. Feij\u00f3o are doing is a betrayal of the Spanish people.\u201d \u201cWhat the Popular Party wants is for three and a half million Spaniards to be unable to vote,\u201d insisted the minister, who asserted that \u201cthe vast majority of those Spaniards currently residing abroad are Spanish citizens by birth.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also denounced the \u201cenormous hypocrisy\u201d of Feij\u00f3o and the PP because \u201cthis law was precisely what they included in their 2023 electoral program.\u201d Specifically, the electoral program for the May 23 elections In July 2023, a proposal was made to guarantee the right to Spanish nationality for descendants of Spaniards through a “reformed Law on Access to Nationality for Grandchildren” and by “strengthening the Consulates responsible for processing nationality applications.”<\/p>\n

The Law of Democratic Memory, which replaces the Historical Memory Law of 2007, has been in force since October 2022 after being approved by the Congress of Deputies and the Senate at the proposal of the government of Pedro S\u00e1nchez, with votes against it from, among others, the People’s Party and Vox. The law grants Spanish nationality to “those born outside of Spain to a father or mother, grandfather or grandmother, who were originally Spanish, and who, as a consequence of having suffered exile for political, ideological, or religious reasons, or due to their sexual orientation and identity, have lost or renounced their Spanish nationality.”<\/p>\n

As of April 30, 2026, the number of naturalization applications totaled 2,622,450 applications were submitted, and the number of approved applications totaled 557,709, according to a parliamentary response from the Ministry of the Presidency and Justice to the People’s Party (PP). The granting of citizenship is stipulated in the eighth additional provision of the “Grandchildren Law.” Despite this, the more than 70 amendments submitted by the PP to the law at the time made no mention of this provision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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