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Spain’s right moves to restrict full-face veils in public places
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This Tuesday, the Congress of Deputies will decide whether to take into consideration the proposal for an organic law by which Vox wants to prohibit the use in public spaces of the burka and niqab, two elements of the dress of some Muslim women. The first, a veil that only exposes the eyes; while the second completely hides their bodies, from head to foot. That debate that now brings Vox to parliament, and to which the PP has already shown its s…
Spain’s right moves to restrict full-face veils in public places
Spain’s right-wing party Vox has formally submitted a legislative proposal to ban the wearing of the burka and niqab in public spaces, a move that has gained the backing of the centre-right Partido Popular (People’s Party or PP) The bill is scheduled for debate this Tuesday in the Congress of Deputies, marking one of the most controversial parliamentary discussions of the current session. Source
The Congress is debating this Tuesday an initiative to ban the integral veil in public spaces with a clear anti-migration bias, which has implied the rejection of all progressive forces Expulsion and fines up to 20,200 euros: the small print of Vox's law to ban the burka in public spaces supported by the PP The Popular Party increases its winks to Vox in full autonomic negotiation. Alberto Núñez Feijóo's formation will support this Tuesday in Co…
The Congress of Deputies will vote on Tuesday on a Proposal for a Law for the Protection of the Dignity of Women and Citizen Security in the Public Space that includes the prohibition of the use of the integral veil (the burka and the niqab) in the public space. With this initiative, which Vox has presented and which the PP has already announced will support, it is intended to put a stop to degrading clothing for women, more typical of societies…
Yolanda Díaz's party believes that the initiative violates women's religious freedom and dignity.
The Congress today votes on a Vox proposal to veto the use in public spaces of veils that cover the face. The Senate passed a motion in 2010 to that effect, but neither the governments nor the legislators made such a regulation.
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