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Spain’s right moves to restrict full-face veils in public places

Summary by Euro Weekly News
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

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Yolanda Díaz's party believes that the initiative violates women's religious freedom and dignity.

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Junts will vote this Tuesday against Vox's bill in Congress to ban burka and niqab in public spaces, although they have registered a project of their own that goes in the same direction. Party sources have found that they have never voted any Vox's proposal in Congress, and now they will not do so either because they believe that the formation of Santiago Abascal "is an anti-Catalan, anti-feminist political party against human rights and that it…

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Libertad Digital broke the news in on Monday, February 16, 2026.
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