Published 6 July 2021 at 15.33
Abroad. A court in Madrid has rejected the ruling Social Democratic Party PSOE's attempt to ban an immigration-critical election poster from the Vox party, reports El Pais.
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The posters use the word “mena”, which in Spanish is used to denote so-called unaccompanied refugee children, to show that these cost more than ten times more money than “grandmother” receives in retirement.
“4,700 euros a month for a mena. 426 euros a month for your grandmother's pension”, reads the message.
“Protect Madrid. Vote for security”, it says at the bottom of the posters of Vox, an immigration-critical party that has grown rapidly in opionion.
A public prosecutor backed by the ruling PSOE party demanded that the posters be removed because they gave “a damaging image” of immigrants by portraying them ” with hood and masking “to associate them with criminals.
However, the Madrid court finds that this is an” election slogan “and that the ideas presented should not be” forbidden “. The court also writes that immigration is an “obvious social and political problem” that is well known.