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“Autonomies and municipalities are already of legal age to decide whether they want bullfights or not in their territories. We want to unbelie It is not my culture in the Culture Commission of the Congress of Deputies.

La lb It is not my culture Try to unprotect bullfighting and stop considering cultural heritage, repealing Law 18/2013. In this way, communities and municipalities would have competence on this matter and could prohibit bullfights and other bullfighting shows (which would also be out of the young cultural bonus, according to the Minister of Culture Ernest Urtasun). This Tuesday Ibáñez García defended the text against the deputies of the different groups, before the debate that will take place in the Plenary.

“The evolution of society has led us to a lower within the variety of celebrations with the demise of the animal and the help to them, regardless of the subsidies which might be devoted to fostering them,” said the lawyer. “Culture can not function an excuse for violence, we’re clear that tradition isn’t imposed, tradition is chosen,” he added. More than 70% of Spaniards repudiate bullfights and other shows with animal abuse, according to the study data Perception of animals and nature of the BBVA Foundation.

ERC or Sumar spokesmen showed their support to the ILP. “We defend a tradition that doesn’t scent like blood, to torture. Bullfighting works as a result of there are public seaside bars which might be smearing them,” said Nahuel González, spokesman to add, which put as an example to follow the Colombian model, where bullfighting and animal abuse shows are prohibited, even if labor reconversion roads are sought for those affected by the sector.

In February, 715,606 signatures of the ILP were delivered, of which the Central Electoral Board has certified 664,777 as valid. The promoters presume that it is 32.91% more than the firms achieved by the 2012 bullfighting ILP that declared bullfighting as cultural heritage: what is intended to undo. And they also ensure that among the signatories, in addition to finding people from all territories and of all ages, there are people of all political sensitivity. “Also of PP and Vox,” said Ibáñez.

The debate focused more on the great discussion issues around bullfighting than in what the ILP proposes: to return to municipalities and communities the power to decide. Thus, the PP and Vox spokesmen used the usual cultural authority argument: figures such as Lorca, Goya, Alberti, Camarón or Joaquín Sabina portrayed or enjoyed the bulls, with the recent adhesion to the list of the filmmaker Albert Serra and his controversial documentary documentary Soledad afternoonsabout the bullfighter Andrés Roca Rey.

To Vox bullfighting is a fundamental and inalienable pillar of Spanish identity. His spokesman, José Ramírez del Río, claimed that “they don’t attempt to take cash from the bullfighting celebrations, however of prohibiting them: you may have stated that the tradition isn’t imposed, it’s chosen; there are numerous thousands and thousands of people that select to attend bullfighting celebrations, spectators who go and pay their entry.” He emphasized the “rebound impact” that makes bulls winning followers among young people. In this regard, the spokesman of adding, Nahuel González, related that youth presence in the squares with the rise of the extreme right among the young men and also mentioned the curiosity that the agitator Ultra Alvise Pérez does not support bullfighting.

“This is a regulation of censorship!”: Tougher was, curiously, María Soledad Cruz-Guzmán, of the PP. “It could appear annoying and even indignant, as a result of I’m: this involves kick our structure, to impose a sort of tradition.” The spokeswoman equated bullfighting with culture and those who oppose ignorance. “The cultural worth of bullfighting is incontestable: are we barbarians or we’re educated folks?” In addition to offering other usual arguments, such as the good treatment that the bull receives in La Dehesa or the economy it generates. “And don’t put the excuse of the competence battle when they need Taurinism of Goya (a theme that was additionally topic to sufficient spurious dialogue).

With matches reminiscent of PP and Vox in opposition to, and add, Podemos or ERC in favor, the PSOE place can be decisive. His spokesman, Marc Lamuá, confirmed an equidistant place (which criticized him from including) and denounced the tone of “cultural battle” of the intervenings: “Culture is not a battlefield, but an agora of encounter. Simplify a cultural fact such as bullfighting to an act attended by ‘caspos’ or ‘beings of light’ is unfair because it distorts and pools before we can Sussecrated debate. ”

The socialist wanted to show his respect for the people who have raised the ILP and those who have signed: “There is a bulk of the inhabitants that asks that we talk about a particular subject, it isn’t to obtain a deaf ear.” He claimed to treat bullfighting with respect, for what he has meant in Spanish culture, but acknowledged that “tradition isn’t preserved in formalin, some traditions of humanity are not there, others have recovered. Democracy is to not protect as immutable what we had been, however to determine what we wish to be.”