Isabel Díaz Ayuso accuses Spanish government of electoral engineering through nationality grants

Madrid president Isabel Díaz Ayuso warned that the central government is using the Law of Historical Memory – popularly called the “Law of Grandchildren” – to grant Spanish nationality to descendants of Civil‑War exiles in order to inflate the overseas electoral census. She said each consul or official who grants nationality “to someone who does not deserve it would be doing something illegal.”

Ayuso claimed the scheme could make Argentina the “third province” by vote in the next elections and argued that the government’s control over the allocation of seats is “arbitrary” and constitutes an attempt to change the census. She also criticised the lack of fiscal inspections into corruption cases linked to the ruling party, calling for “objective and coherent” investigations and rejecting the notion that any probes are acts of vengeance.

Other figures in the People’s Party echoed her concerns, linking the nationality policy to a broader strategy of electoral manipulation ahead of the upcoming polls.