The idea of banning the burka and the niqab has reached Congress: PP and Vox are in favour, but Junts will vote against
The Catalan party has announced that it will present its own bill to ban the use of the comprehensive veil in public spaces.
Two women with burka.
The debate on the ban on the integral veil (burka and niqab) in public space has reached the Congress of Deputies. The plenary of the Lower House will vote this Tuesday on a proposal for an Organic Law "to protect the dignity of women and public security in public space" presented by Vox.
The Catalan party has announced in the last few hours that it will vote against the proposed law, but has indicated that it will submit its own bill advocating a ban on the comprehensive veil in public spaces.
Thus, Junts has made it clear that his opposition to the proposal has much to do with his coming from Vox. Party sources have pointed out that no Vox proposal has ever been voted on in Congress.
The PP, meanwhile, has advanced that it will support the initiative, while the PP's Deputy Secretary of Social Policy, Carmen Funez, has explained that her party will support "true feminism." "Ours is not the feminism that defends the burka or niqab in our country," she said.
Background
The debate came to Parliament this Tuesday after the Balearic Parliament approved in early February, with the support of Vox, a non-legislative proposal by the PP calling on the Spanish Government to ban the use of the burka and niqab in Spanish public spaces.
On the other hand, in Asturias, Vox de Gijón failed last week to take forward an initiative against "burka or similar clothing." Not even last year did a Vox proposal to ban the full veil in Murcia come forward.
Even in Madrid came a Vox proposal to ban the Islamic veil by means of a Non-Law Proposition, which took place in April last year and which opposed the proposal of the President of the Community, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, but which did not refer to the comprehensive veil, but to the Islamic veil.
In August 2025, PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo was in favour of "banning" the burka and niqab in public spaces, but the veil or hijab that has distinguished them. "Any dress that violates the dignity of women or the security of public spaces must be banned in our country," Feijóo said.
The debate in Catalonia and Junts
Meanwhile, in Catalonia, in May last year, the Parlament refused to ban the Islamic veil, the burka, the hijab, the niqab, the burkini, the 'shawl', the khimar or the chater. The proposal came to the Parlament through Aliança Catalana and the PSC-Units, Junts, ERC, Communs and CUP opposed the ban.
Junts then voted against the AC proposal, considering the written text to be "full of hatred."
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