At Fundación Faro's annual dinner, Javier Milei accused Pedro Sánchez of using the ley de nietos to influence the 29 November general election. He also alleged migrant regularisations were intended to boost PSOE votes.
At the annual Fundación Faro dinner, Milei returned to a confrontation Sánchez had already answered publicly. The Argentine president accused Spain’s prime minister of trying to rig the general election set for 29 November through the ley de nietos.
The law, formally Law 20/2022, forms part of Spain’s Democratic Memory Law and allows eligible descendants to seek Spanish nationality of origin. It covers certain people with Spanish parents or grandparents who were exiled or lost or renounced Spanish nationality for political, ideological, religious or gender-related reasons, against the historical backdrop of exile and persecution during the Civil War and Franco dictatorship. Applicants must document the family relationship and qualifying circumstances through civil-status records, with applications handled through consulates and civil registries. The process is distinct from immigration and residence procedures and does not automatically register recipients to vote. Milei claimed the citizenship grants were intended to bring votes to the left. He also alleged that Sánchez had regularised hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants to increase support for the PSOE. The account offers no evidence to substantiate those claims.
Milei presented the dispute as part of a wider warning about falling birth rates and the reception of immigrants in the West. He described Sánchez’s approach as “la política del reemplazo” and again called him “ladrón corrupto”. The insults had also featured during Milei’s recent visit to Spain, prompting a public response from Sánchez.
Sánchez had embraced the label “zurdo”, a term Milei uses for left-wing leaders, saying he was proud of it if it meant raising pensions and the SMI. He also cited defending abortion rights and the “No a la guerra” position.
Milei has made migration and electoral motives a recurring charge against Sánchez. Separately, Spanish government reporting recorded that more than 12,700 people had returned to Morocco from Ceuta since 10 August 2026. The figure concerns returns, not regularisations. An earlier report on Ceuta covered his allegation that arrivals there were being encouraged for political gain.
Fundación Faro is a think tank linked to the party led by Milei. He ended his speech by saying he hoped the right would come to power in Spain.
