Overview
- Junts has opened quiet talks with the PSOE to shape a bill that could withstand constitutional and European scrutiny, according to ABC reporting.
- The PP registered its own national proposal focusing on identification and classifying face‑covering in public as an administrative infraction with fines of 100–600 euros.
- Alternative approaches diverge: Junts frames a prohibition around identification and seeks competence guarantees for Catalonia, while Vox’s failed text sought a strict nationwide ban with criminal penalties and immigration consequences.
- Local councils moved in opposite directions this week, with Níjar and Burgos approving access bans for municipal buildings as Tarragona and Abarán rejected similar Vox motions; Alcalá de Henares also backed an access restriction earlier in the week.
- A 2013 Supreme Court ruling that struck down Lleida’s ordinance and warned of potential isolation for affected women continues to cloud municipal measures, even as Vox accuses other parties of hypocrisy over the issue.