The Spanish Supreme Court Tuesday confirmed the decision of the national election commission, the Junta Electoral Central (JEC), which ruled in February last year that Twitter’s temporary suspension of far-right political party Vox’s account over an Islamaphobic tweet was “reasonable and proportional.”

Days before the electoral campaign for the Parliament of Catalonia, Vox tweeted inaccurate statistics that immigrants of North African origin make up 0.2 percent of the population in Catalonia but are responsible for 93 percent of the crimes in the region and tagged the tweet with “#StopIslamization.”

Twitter found that the tweet incited hate and broke the social network’s community rules against threatening, harassing or promoting violence against other people for reasons of race, ethnic origin, or religion. Accordingly, it limited the party’s account for eight days from January 8 to February 4, 2021. Five of these days coincided with the electoral campaign period.

Vox took the dispute to court. Leader Santiago Abascal condemned the move as “censorship” and asked for immediate restitution of the account on grounds of Article 66 of the Organic Law of the General Electoral Regime, which guarantees pluralism, equality, proportionality and informative neutrality by the media during elections.

The Supreme Court dismissed Vox’s claim, noting that there is a private contractual relationship between the parties. Although Vox considers the applicable clauses of the agreement as abusive and unilateral, it consented to them at the time of opening of its account and neither the JEC nor the Supreme Court can annul these applicable clauses. Further, the JEC had prudently exercised its powers to organize the elections and rendered a decision on reasonableness and proportionality of the measure by Twitter.

On Wednesday, Vox gained control of a regional government for the first time after reaching an agreement with another conservative group, the Popular Party. The president of Vox, Santiago Abascal, told the Parliament last week that European countries must welcome Ukrainian refugees but opposed the entry of Muslim refugees fleeing from the conflict zone.