CAAMAÑO VALLE v. SPAIN JUDGMENT In the case of Caamaño Valle v. Spain, The European Court of Human Rights (Third Section), sitting as a Chamber composed of: Paul Lemmens, President, Georgios A. Serghides, Dmitry Dedov, Georges Ravarani, María Elósegui, Anja Seibert-Fohr, Peeter Roosma, judges, and Milan Blaško, Section Registrar, Having regard to: the application (no. 43564/17) against the Kingdom of Spain lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (“the Convention”) by a Spanish national, Ms Maria del Mar Caamaño Valle (“the applicant”), on 9 June 2017; the decision to give notice of the application to the Spanish Government (“the Government”); the observations submitted by the respondent Government and the observations in reply submitted by the applicant; the comments submitted by the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe who intervened as a third party; Having deliberated in private on 19 January and on 30 March 2021, Delivers the following judgment, which was adopted on the lastmentioned date: INTRODUCTION 1. The application concerns the right to vote of the applicant’s daughter, placed under partial guardianship owing to her intellectual disability. The applicant relied on Article 3 of Protocol No. 1, read alone or in conjunction with Article 14 of the Convention and Article 1 of Protocol No. 12. THE FACTS 2. The applicant was born in and lives in Santiago de Compostela. She is the mother of M., a mentally disabled young woman born in A Coruña (La Coruña) in 1996. The applicant was represented by Ms L. Gonzalez-Lagana Vicente, a lawyer practising in A Coruña. 3. The Government were represented by their Agent, Mr R.-A. León Cavero, State Counsel and head of the Human Rights Department at the Ministry of Justice. 1