Four Portuguese authors, including José Eduardo Agualusa, Helder Macedo, and Ana Margarida de Carvalho, have been nominated as finalists for the Oceanos prize, which highlights prose and poetry works written in Portuguese, selected from more than three thousand applications from 13 nationalities. #PrémioOceanos #LiteraturaPortuguesa #Finalistas (translated)
The Supreme Court will receive this Wednesday the list of more than 160,000 Spaniards naturalized under the grandchildren's law, whose ability to vote is conditional on obtaining certificates that verify the political persecution suffered by their ancestors. #LeyDeNietos #NacionalidadEspañola #CensoElectoral (translated)
The podcast analyzes how the law that would allow 100,000 Sahrawis to obtain Spanish nationality was disapproved after the early elections, further disappointing the Sahrawi people. #SaharaOccidental #Nacionalidad #Elecciones (translated)
The Constitutional Court has rejected the appeal for protection from the Ombudsman regarding the 'grandchildren's law' as premature, thus maintaining the suspension of the right to vote for the grandchildren of exiles who acquired nationality through a Supreme Court instruction. #LeyDeNietos #DerechoAVoto #DefensorDelPueblo (translated)
Electomanía reported that a lawsuit filed by Hazte Oír against Sofía Puente for alleged misconduct related to the Grandchildren's Law had been accepted. It added that Puente, Secretary of Public Service Quality and sister of Óscar Puente, was the subject of the lawsuit for expanding the pathways to nationality. https://t.co/3opcl9d1AI https://t.co/lvLiMrZ3I3 #LeyDeNietos #Prevaricación #Política (translated)
The author stated that Pedro Sánchez went to Brussels to show solidarity with immigrants, despite having written that he had not shown it towards Ceuta, Adamuz, Valencia, or La Palma. He also claimed that he was confident in obtaining the votes of tens of thousands of foreigners who, he accused, had been granted nationality fraudulently and irregularly. https://t.co/2GfeTrqzN3 #Inmigración #Solidaridad #Política #ES (translated)
The Institute of Registries and Notary (IRN) accounts for more than 690,000 pending nationality requests, an increase of 38% compared to 2025, with 26% of these requests made by immigrants residing in Portugal. #Migrações #Nacionalidade #Imigrantes (translated)
Teresa Gómez published in The Objective that it had been ordered to modify the dates of nationality applications so that all would fall within the deadline set by the Government to take advantage of the so-called grandchildren's law. As an example, she stated that an application submitted on December 31, 2025, could be dated October 22. Gómez described that alteration of a public document as documentary falsification. #Nacionalidad #LeyDeNietos #FalsedadDocumental (translated)
DAN claimed that a couple from Bangladesh had traveled to Mecca on pilgrimage to spend their honeymoon and were arrested after kissing in the courtyard of a mosque. According to what he wrote, a Pakistani man recorded the scene and sent the video to the Saudi authorities, who sentenced the couple to death. DAN maintained that Abdul-Bashir and Siti were executed by beheading on October 14, 2026, and that their remains were sent to Bangladesh. He added that the Bangladeshi government lodged a protest to Saudi Arabia and closed his publication with the phrase "the religion of peace." #Bangladesh #ArabiaSaudita #Peregrinación (translated)
The Civil Guard has dismantled a criminal network that brought pregnant Brazilian women to Burgos to give birth and obtain Spanish nationality, arresting four involved individuals and accusing them of various crimes related to irregular immigration and document falsification. #InmigraciónIrregular #Burgos #GuardiaCivil (translated)
Luis María Pardo stated that the situation regarding the Grandchildren's Law was more serious than politicians communicated, in his opinion. He said that more than 600,000 citizenship applications had been approved and over 1.3 million submitted, and that by 2025 more than 200,000 nationalities had been granted for residency. Pardo held that since 2022 politicians had left the matter without sufficient oversight and questioned the actions of the opposition. He claimed that only Iustitia Europa had reported to the JEC what was happening and said that they were approaching November 29 "with everything against them." He also attributed the situation to the inaction of the politicians from the Transition and stated that Iustitia would continue to move forward. #LeyDeNietos #Política #Justicia (translated)
The author demanded that the Argentine citizen Juan Manuel de Hoz immediately return his Spanish passport and stated that both this and Spanish nationality had been obtained illegally and through fraud. #España #Ciudadano #Pasaporte #AR #ES (translated)
The MOSAICO BTS profile - Come Over Brasil said that the Brazilian ARMY was wondering why people were differentiated by nationality or continent, despite RM having stated that in the ARMY and BTS, everyone was equal. The profile regretted that on that day, it was the fans from Brazil who asked that question. https://t.co/63dy9iQqhE #BTS #ARMY #Unidade (translated)
Pablo Cambronero stated that The Objective was showing that Sánchez was granting Spanish nationality to people close to him. #España #Nacionalidad #Política (translated)
A historical collapse in the Spanish consulates, especially in Buenos Aires, has been caused by the avalanche of 2.4 million nationality applications under the 'grandchildren's law', accumulating huge mountains of documents and generating long waits in an overwhelmed system. #LeyDeNietos #ColapsoConsular #NacionalidadEspañola (translated)
The Popular Party pointed out that the Grandchildren's Law allowed the children and grandchildren of political exiles to request nationality. It stated that the PSOE had naturalized the great-grandson of a Spaniard who emigrated to Mexico in the 19th century for economic reasons and wished for him to vote on November 29. It also asked if that case helped to understand the Supreme Court's decision. #LeyDeNietos #ExiliadosPolíticos #NacionalidadEspañola (translated)
The author questioned that a court had said that some people with Spanish nationality did not have the right to vote. He argued that suffrage was one of the most sacred rights of citizenship and expressed his incomprehension at the court's decision. https://t.co/JsNuAgXVF1 #DerechoAlVoto #NacionalidadEspañola #Ciudadanía #ES (translated)
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, José Manuel Albares, has acknowledged that it will be "very difficult" for the consulates to verify in time who obtained nationality under the regulation and whether they are descendants of exiles. #LeyDeNietos #DerechosFundamentales #TribunalConstitucional (translated)
ElBuni stated that the French left had blocked the Louvre museum and that tourists from around the world had joined in the insults. He also called for listening to the audio from the sixth second and guessing the nationality of those who, according to him, led the mockery. https://t.co/0CMEKm1ZTd #Louvre #Francia #turismo (translated)
The link between being Spanish and the right to vote is indissoluble. Gabilondo also points out that "the exclusion of Spanish nationality for those who took advantage of the Instruction is a disputed issue, sub iudice, there is no ruling, while "the right to vote for all Spaniards is not a disputed issue: it is a constitutional certainty." #LeyDeNietos #DefensorDelPueblo #TribunalConstitucional (translated)
