The event, held less than 20 days before the general elections in Spain, featured five professors and researchers from the faculty. María Hylma Alcaraz, Juan Antonio Hernández Corchete, and Xosé Manuel Pacho Blanco focused on various aspects of the so-called 'grandchildren law', while Jacinto Lareo Jiménez and Paula Martínez Molares addressed the adaptation of electoral legislation for people with disabilities to exercise their active suffrage and the jurisdictional protection of this right.
The dean of FCCXXT, Pablo Grande Seara, praised the initiative of the Student Delegation, highlighting that students are in contact with reality and aware of current legal issues. He also thanked the professors for their disinterested participation, whose presentations encourage legal reflection on these two thematic axes.
Alejandro Alonso Lago, president of the Student Delegation, emphasized the importance of being informed to exercise rights and duties in a critical context like the present. He explained that, although the original idea was to focus on the rights of people with disabilities, the early election date led to the inclusion of the 'grandchildren law' issue, related to the acquisition of Spanish nationality and equal political rights.
María Hylma Alcaraz, a professor in the Constitutional Law Area, presented the constitutional impact of suspending the vote for 'grandchildren of the exile'. Juan Antonio Hernández Corchete, from the Administrative Law Area, juridically analyzed this suspension and the pronouncements of the courts. Xosé Manuel Pacho Blanco, from the Philosophy of Law Area, addressed the state of Law concerning 'lawfare' and the case of the Democratic Memory Law.
Regarding the right to suffrage for people with disabilities, Alonso Lago described its recognition in Spain as late, settling a debt with individuals who now have full legal capacity after legislative reforms. He recalled that, despite the initial recognition through the 2006 New York Convention, it was not until 2021 that incapacitations were abolished and a system of support measures was established.
Jacinto Lareo Jiménez, from the Administrative Law Area and President of Fundación Sálvora, focused on the adaptations of the LOREG for people with disabilities, while Paula Martínez Molares, from the Procedural Law Area, discussed the jurisdictional protection of the right to suffrage following Law 8/2021.
