From 1,000 per year to 1,500 per day in Rosario, according to a tweet

## The Allegations of the Rosario Consulate

It is said that a consulate should not be busier than a factory producing screws. Yet, this is what has been put forward in mid-September: according to a tweet circulating in the debate, the Spanish consular office in Rosario allegedly went from processing around one thousand nationalizations per year to handling 1,500 per day, with teams supposedly working overtime around the clock. This information circulated alongside a front page concerning an audio attributed to what was the PSOE secretary-general in Argentina, which—according to its publication—discusses passports of deceased individuals for voting by mail in the 2023 general elections. Two accusations, one shared suspicion: that the foreign registry has become a backdoor to power.

## The Audio Attributed to the PSOE in Argentina

The centerpiece of this case is an audio recording which, according to leaked information, shows the Socialist official in Argentina encouraging people to join 'a circuit of comrades' to gather votes ahead of the 2023 general elections. The accusation, which has yet to receive a judicial resolution, holds that deceased individuals' passports were allegedly used to cast votes by mail from abroad. It is important to be explicit: this is a journalistic fruta, not a proven fact. However, its content has peine an uncomfortable question that has lingered for years: how much weight does the vote of Spaniards abroad truly carry, and to what extent is it controlled?

## CERA Voting and Mail-in Ballots: Two Circuits, Two Possible Frauds

In foreign voting, two distinct mechanisms coexist, which are often confused. On one side is the consular registry of Spanish residents—the CERA—which allows voting in person at the embassy or by mail, provided the voter is registered. On the other is the ordinary mail-in vote within Spain, used by those transferred, incarcerated, or simply outside their municipality. One participant in the debate warns that both can be manipulated in parallel, and the latter is rarely monitored. One detail noted is that for several years, registration in the CERA has become mandatory for any consular procedure, which increases the registry size.

## Why Revoking a Granted Nationality is a Labyrinth

The Rosario consulate case is not isolated, according to the debate: it is the tip of the iceberg regarding the so-called Law of Grandchildren. According to estimates, this process added around 2.4 million new Spaniards, to which nearly 1.2 million regularizations were added. The deadline was October 22, 2025. And here comes the problem that almost no one wants to face: according to analyses circulating in the debate, annulling a granted nationality would practically require an individualized judicial procedure—police involvement, evidence, witnesses, court hearings, appeals, expulsion—. Multiplied by millions of cases, the judicial system would take half a century. The full calculation, case by case, is what highlights the magnitude of the backlog.

Underlying this is the most uncomfortable finding: that anyone who wants to reverse this legally needs decades, while those wishing to take advantage of it only need for no one to look.

Will anyone dare to audit, one by one, what is already inside?