Overview
- Lleida's PSC-led city hall unveiled Tuesday a draft civility ordinance to ban full-face coverings in public spaces and city offices, with a vote planned for June.
- The text makes exceptions for places of worship and other settings where face covering is customary and does not hinder normal social contact.
- Violations would be classified as minor offenses with fines in the several-hundred-euro range.
- City leaders frame the plan as a feminist measure paired with a socio-educational program to boost women's autonomy and flag possible coercion.
- Reactions split, with regional and national officials urging calm analysis and the local PP calling the move incoherent, against a legal backdrop of a 2010 ban the Supreme Court annulled for overreach.