Various non-governmental organizations, especially the association AnimaNaturalisThey registered a Popular Legislative Initiative (ILP) at the Congress of Deputies this Thursday. repeal the law protecting Bullfighting at the state level when considering cultural heritage.
As ILP promotion commission spokesperson Cristina Ibáñez explained to the media, “this is not my culture”, the initiative is currently being presented They are “optimistic” They say that Spanish society has gained awareness in the last decade since the approval of Law 18/2013 regulating bullfighting, making it less and less supportive of this activity.
Ibáñez said one source of hope for animal rights organizations is the formation of a new “progressive” Government. They don’t want to put pressure on “a specific person” But the Minister of Culture admitted that Ernest UrtasunHis speech against bullfighting is another sign of the “positive” moment.
The ILP presented this Thursday intends to condemn this”Current state law undermines regional and municipal powers“Given that in practice it does not allow municipalities and autonomous communities to regulate matters related to their cultural heritage,” he argued.
“According to statistics from the Ministry of Culture, public celebrations and bullfights have decreased by approximately half in these 10 years.” Ibáñez emphasized that the problem is that the autonomies cannot regulate against bullfighting because it is “armored”.
“We talk more or less Bullfighting celebrations increased from approximately 1,400 in 2019 to 2,600 in 2009. “Although bullfighting was declared as cultural heritage in 2013, the same Ministry of Culture conducted a survey with 16 thousand people in 2018 and 2019, and the results reveal the lack of interest in these issues.”
Only 8 percent of the total number of people surveyed participated in bullfighting celebrations, and only 5.8 percent of this number attended the bullfight, the spokesman said, adding that 5.8 percent of them participated in the bullfight, 19.6 percent with free entry and 5 percent with free entrance. He stated that he also participated. We attended at a discount.
After the Congressional Board accepts the action initiativeOrganizations will have nine months to collect 500,000 signatures from civil society, after which the Lower House would proceed to process it by ordinary means. The purpose of submitting the ILP on this date is detailed as follows: “to ensure that it is voted on before the legislature ends and thus has the possibility of a parliamentary majority supporting it“.