The court accepted the Madrid anti-migrant campaign poster of the Spanish right. The left announced the party called Vox, which, according to them, was trying to reach voters in the regional elections by inciting hatred.
In the end, the court acquitted the right-wing party because, although the veracity of the poster's text is questionable, "migrant youth are an obvious problem for Spain," the ruling states.
Vox, a party led by Santiago Abascal, who also visited Budapest in connection with the migration crisis, The poster showed a photograph of an elderly woman and an immigrant. According to his text, "an unaccompanied migrant youth costs the state 4,700 euros per month, while your grandmother receives a pension of 426 euros per month."
The socialists wanted to have the poster removed from the capital as soon as possible, so together with the prosecutor's office, they filed a complaint against Vox for inciting hatred and racism. In the meantime, the left-wing media dismissed the information on the poster as fake news. A few days later, the Madrid court investigating the case closed the case files for lack of a crime, against which the socialist government filed an appeal, but in the end it was not possible to remove the posters from the capital until election day.
The Madrid provincial court made the final decision on the case this week. The judges approved the Vox poster, according to their reasoning, because regardless of whether the data on it is correct or not, migrant youth "represent an obvious social and political problem not only domestically, but also in the country's international relations" . The court noted: Vox never once showed signs of crime, violence or incitement to hatred during the election period, therefore the ideology represented through the text of the campaign "cannot be treated as an idea to be banned", because each party represents different values, one idea cannot be banned or criticized with another against. They believe that the text fits into the range of general verbal exaggerations of election actors.
Representatives of the left in Spain condemned the court for the decision. Ione Belarra , the new leader of Unidas Podemos (Together We Can) in the coalition government, said on his Twitter page: "The most vulnerable children can never be a problem for our society. The fact that some people view them in this way is a big problem for our country."
the Minister of Consumer Affairs, Alberto Garzón, believed: "it seems to be a much more serious social and political problem that there are people in a judicial institution who think this way about this issue."
The original article can be read in Magyar Nemzet.
