The Balearic Islands parliament has voted in favour of a motion calling on the national government to ban burqas in Spain.\u00a0It passed with support from conservative Partido Popular and far-right Vox parties, while the independent, socialist, and far-left parties voted against it, accusing the conservatives of “seeking headlines” with a “racist” agenda.<\/p>\n
Balearrc MP Cristina Gil called the burqa “a prison of fabric” that shouldn’t be allowed in public spaces. She said: “It renders women invisible and annihilates them, reducing them to a curtain.” Llu\u00eds Apesteguia, of left-wing party M\u00e9s, said the motion was only put forward to “gain electoral advantage”.<\/p>\n
Vox wanted to take the measure one step further and called for the hijab to be banned also, but this was met with opposition from both sides.<\/p>\n
The country’s president is to sign the legislation into law, after which individuals risk a \u20ac4,000 (\u00a33,496) fine if they don the item of clothing in a prohibited place.<\/p>\n
There will also be prison terms of up to three years in the offing for anyone who “forces” another person to wear one.<\/p>\n
Portugal will then join France, Belgium, Austria and Denmark in observing a general prohibition on the face coverings in public.<\/p>\n
The Netherlands and some areas of Italy, Germany and Spain, meanwhile, have restrictions in place in specific places, such as schools, hospitals or on public transport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Balearic Islands parliament has voted in favour of a motion calling on the national government to ban…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[34169,13085,2838,72892,12,104,26],"class_list":["post-741588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-balearic-islands","tag-ibiza","tag-majorca","tag-menorca","tag-news","tag-spain","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116012010948569174","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}