El Constitucional rechaza el amparo por la ‘ley de nietos’ con el voto en contra de dos magistrados progresistas

The Supreme Constitutional Court, by a margin of ten votes to two, rejected the amparo brought by the Defensor del Pueblo seeking to restore the voting rights of 160,000 nationals who had their suffrage suspended by the Supreme Court on October 12th, the day of Hispanity. The majority of the court of guarantees, beyond the polarization between progressives and conservatives, deemed the Defensor's petition premature as the procedure was still open in the Supreme Court until the following Friday when affected individuals could file their cases.

The court found the amparo to be in violation of the subsidiarity requirement, meaning all avenues of ordinary justice had not been exhausted. Two progressive judges cast a dissenting vote in defense of the fundamental right to vote, which the Defensor considers restricted without legislative intervention or any act attributable to the affected individuals.