Beneficiaries of Spain’s ‘grandchildren law’: ‘Spanish nationality is a bond with my grandparents’

The leader of the opposition in Spain, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, of the mainstream conservative People’s Party, lashed out this week at the Democratic Memory Law, popularly known as the ley de nietos or Grandchildren law, which grants Spanish nationality to descendants of Spaniards who went into exile or emigrated. “It’s electoral engineering, a move to get new voters,” he said, accusing the Socialist prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, of using it to “manufacture new voters.”

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