The animal welfare bill pitting the PSOE and Podemos, which will be discussed this Thursday by the plenary of Congress, danger every time moreover, after several of the Government’s investment partners indicated that they would vote against it if hunting dogs were finally excluded.
The document was approved by the Council of Ministers last summer with the encouragement of the Minister of Social Rights. Ione BelarraPodemos, but shortly after the Socialist Group introduced a change to Podemos exclude hunting dogs. Said consensus amendment was included in the text at the Commission stage with the support of PP and Vox, among other groups, but with the rejection of Unidas Podemos, who nevertheless voted in favor of the bill as a whole during the said process.
He said the change to exclude hunting dogs would change the “heart” of future law, he reassured this Tuesday Lilith Verstrynge, secretary of the Podemos Organization and Secretary of State for the 2030 Agendaurged the socialists to correct. “We hope there will be a movement from today to Thursday,” insisted the head of the Podemos Socialist Group.
“We haven’t reached an agreement yet, but we believe there is the will to reach it. The ‘Page model’ proposal we presented to PSOE is perfectly acceptable (…)” he added. verstrynge The aforementioned model excludes hunting dogs from legal protection in the Castilla-La Mancha community while only practicing the said activity.
For the PSOE, the change included in the bill is the one working with the countryside and rural environment. “We believe this is good law to continue,” PSOE sources said on Tuesday. said.
According to this PSOE spokesperson Pilar Alegria said: It is normal to have differences between parties within governments, and he said that game animals should have different regulations, among others. In any case, he is confident that the bill will be passed this week to have a standard that improves animal welfare in this country.
Pablo Echenique, spokesperson, from United We Can in Congress He stated that this group will continue to work until the very last moment “for PSOE to fix and withdraw the change agreed with PP and Vox”. “This is the demand of the absolute majority of society, not just United We Can.”
Íñigo Errejón, leader of Más Paísassured that his group would not be able to support future animal welfare legislation or the rest of the green formations if the bill were sustained in the current circumstances. “We won’t support this; I’m very clear,” he said, after reproaching that the bill protected hunting dogs less than the laws of some autonomous communities in force, which is “unusual”.
Mireia Vehí from the Committee of Union and Progress He also criticized the bill as “worse” than some community laws in its current form, excluding hunting dogs from legal protection. “It’s not a desirable or positive arrangement,” he said.
From the commitments According to the formation, it was asked to reconsider the bill, which has not received a positive vote so far. According to Genis Boadella from PDeCAT, this formation has still not taken a final vote and we will have to wait for this week’s contacts and negotiations for the final decision; The MP warned that the regulations occupied powers and required “some adjustments”. Gabriel Rufián from ERC He said that under no circumstances would they pass “a bill that uses animals as instruments”.
from the right wing, Vox spokesperson in Congress, Iván Espinosa de los MonterosHe confirmed that his group would vote no to this bill, designed from “the most radical animal husbandry and ignorance of the rural world”, an initiative led by “progressive urbanites who despise the rural world”.
“They didn’t listen to anyone to elaborate on the bill, which is a real nonsense to those who know the rural world.” “Animals deserve protection, but they cannot be subject to rights or duties, a dog cannot be held responsible,” added the person in charge of Vox.
on his behalf Cuca Gamarra, Secretary General of the PP, He stated that his group would vote against it; “We criticize the bill’s approach and it will cause problems in many industries.”
Source: Informacion
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