The Animalist Party with the Environment, Pacmagathered hundreds of people in front of the Las Ventas bullring in Madrid, demand the abolition of bullfighting when we consider this practice of “extreme cruelty” towards animals.
Among the noise of the batucadas and with the green color of this formation as protagonist, the demonstrators chanted songs such as “We are going to close this place!”, “They are not teachers, they are murderers!” “Anti-bullfighting Spain!” or “You can’t have fun watching an animal suffer!”
In addition, they carried placards with slogans such as “Let’s put out the fire of torture”, “This is not my culture” or “They put a sword in it and you say it’s art”. The march, which surrounded the capital’s legendary bullring, He carried the banner “Mission Abolition”.
“This is a totally absurd thing”
The party, which is not represented in Congress, has collected signatures for the Popular Legislative Initiative that it has been promoting since March and which aims to repeal the law that declares bullfighting a cultural heritage of Spain. They need 500,000and as confirmed to EFE by the president of Pacma, Javier Luna, they have already obtained 300,000.
Luna, in this regard, considers that it is “complicated” to reach a consensus on this issue between the main political parties: “Even if The majority of the population is against bullfighting We see that our leaders support it. It is a totally absurd thing, but here, politicians work like that.”
“Pacma is against bullfighting. It is a practice of a extreme cruelty to animals“In Spain, there are more than 18,000 bullfighting festivals and we see how bullfighting bulls are tortured during their race. This cannot be allowed. We must move towards a more civic society, more respectful of animals,” he insists.
Esmeralda Pérez, in Las Ventas
Colombian MP Esmeralda Perez, from the Historic Pact Colombia Podemos, also participated in the demonstration. It was one of the parties that promoted the abolition of bullfighting in this country by a law.
“I hope that the path we have taken in Colombia is also the one followed by Spain and the other countries that remain due to the evolution.” of this bloody practice”, ” Perez said.
