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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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Lean Right

Even if it is a proposal to fail in Congress, at least for today, the discussion is open after Vox entered a bill to ban the use of the burka and the niqab, the two Islamic “comprehensive veils”. The burka is the veil that covers the whole body, only exposing the eyes, while niqab is a similar veil, but with a grid in the eyes, covering the body completely.

·Chile
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Lean Left

The right has advanced it for reasons of political convenience, and has quickly put in trouble the left

·Italy
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Center

The PP will support the process of the initiative of Vox and Movimiento Feminista de Madrid incorporates the prohibition...

·Spain
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Lean Right

The independentist formation, which nevertheless does agree with this restriction, will not support this Tuesday with its seven votes the taking into consideration of the proposed law Read

·Madrid, Spain
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Center

The measure will not succeed when nationalist groups like Junts, PNV and Coalition Canaria that share the need to open the debate but denounce the xenophobic tendency of the initiative of the ultraright

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Lean Right

Independenceists justify their position that Abascal’s “is an anti-Catalan, anti-feminist and anti-human rights political party” and differentiate their proposal by referring to a “delegation of security powers”

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