The Constitutional Court rejects the appeal against the 'grandchildren's law' with two progressive magistrates voting against.
Ten judges consider that the Supreme Court route must be exhausted first and have rejected the appeal by the Ombudsman.
The Spanish Constitutional Court has rejected, by a 10-2 vote, a petition by the Ombudsman to restore voting rights to 160,000 naturalized citizens whose suffrage was suspended by the Supreme Court on October 12. The court ruled that the petition was premature since the procedure at the Supreme Court is still ongoing and that it did not meet the subsidiarity requirement of having exhausted all ordinary judicial remedies. Two progressive magistrates will issue a dissenting vote, defending the fundamental right to suffrage.
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