The Minister of Culture Ernest Urtasun supported this Monday the popular legislative initiative (ILP) with which it is planned repeal the law on bullfighting cultural heritage and thus avoid “financing animal abuse with Spanish taxes”.
Urtasun made this reflection during the Parliamentary Conference on Animal Protection, Bullfighting and the 21st Century, held at the Congress of Deputies and which he closed with the spokesperson of the parliamentary group Sumar, Inigo Errejonwho thanked the minister for his decision to remove the National Bullfighting Award.
The minister recalled that when he announced the withdrawal of this award given by his ministry, he was accused of “everything”, of practicing censorship and of being “anti-Spanish”, among other epithets.
Despite these protests, Urtasun maintained that the majority of Spaniards are has in favor of animal welfare and, therefore, what the ILP expresses “is common sense: avoid financing animal abuse with Spanish taxes.”
The goal, he said, is for public administrations are not obliged to finance these animal cruelty practicesas it is today, because the bullfighting festival is a cultural heritage.
Ernest Urtasun and Íñigo Errejón this Monday at the closing of the Parliamentary Conference on Animal Protection, Bullfighting and the 21st Century.
Although he recognizes that bullfighting is part of the history of Spain, he observed that nowhere is it written that it should be part of its future, as happened at the time with the circus animals.
For his part, Errejón stressed that this initiative is part of Sumar’s commitment “in favor of Modernization of Spain and reconcile “the official country with the real country”.
“Spanish society is a country massively convinced of the need to have celebrations without animal torture,” he stressed, adding that his group’s mission is “to open the doors of this Parliament so that these common sense ideas become law.”
Like Urtasun, Errejón, who did not doubt that this initiative would be approved, maintained that the festivities “of Animal torture represents what Spain was, not what it is. We are a country that cares for animals and does not rejoice in their suffering.
