About thirty mayors, the presidents of the Regional Councils of Montsià, Baix Ebre and Terra Alta and the Association of Bullfighting Clubs and Commissions of the Terres de l'Ebre (APCTTE) have shown their united rejection of the bill that wants to prohibit three types of confinement.
The APCTTE announced on Thursday that it will request a report from the Council of Statutory Guarantees because it considers the CUP and Commons proposal "unconstitutional."
Likewise, they agreed with the mayors of the towns where bullfights are held on a motion in defense of the bullfighting tradition and culture of the Terres de l'Ebre for which they ask for "respect." They also criticized that the modification of the law is promoted by groups that only represent 4% of the councilors of the towns with festivals with bullfighting.
The bill, which was registered in April by the CUP, En Comú Podem and animal rights organizations, questions and proposes prohibiting the bull on the bull (bou embolat), the bull on the rope (bou capllaçat) and the bull on the beach (bous a la mar). .
The people and bullfighting fans, in a unitary act this Thursday in the Sixto Mir auditorium in la Rápita (Montsià), have demanded coherence from the parliamentary formations, in reference to the common people, who are not opposed to bullfighting either in Spain or in other autonomous communities with so much belligerence.
They denounce "the comparative grievance" that the bill represents while a state animal welfare law is enacted that excludes bullfighting or looks the other way in the Valencian Country. "If we have to have a debate on animal welfare, let's do it, without complexes, however, not only using the bullfighting festival as an example," suggested the president of the ACPTTE.
The Agrupació says that it has met in recent weeks with political groups represented in Parliament to try to "stop" the bill.
The mayor of La Rápita, the socialist Javier Reverté, asked for the PSC to abstain, although he stressed that the summit of mayors and supporters' clubs was not held "to engage in politics." "You must decide the territory, which you do with your heart and not thinking about votes and politics," he added.
The mayor of Paüls and deputy of the Tarragona Provincial Council, the Republican Enric Adell, has asked for consistency and respect for the correbous law, 34/2010, because since then things have been done "very well" and the "tradition It's very deep-rooted." "The rural world has many singularities and must be understood as they are. This does not mean that we did not evolve and do things well," claimed Adell, on behalf of the ERC mayors.
Finally, the mayor of L'Aldea, Xavier Royo, announced that this Friday a meeting is planned with the parliamentary group of Junts per Catalunya where the mayors of the affected party will convey their position and demand the territorial union that exists in defense of the party. of the oxen.
The president of the Ebrense bullfighting group, Santi Albiol, has acknowledged that the "vision" of the situation "is complex" and that they still do not have "absolute certainty" about what each political party will vote for in next week's vote. "There is interest on the part of the political parties so that the vote is favorable to the bullfighting festival. We will work on it until the last second, in the corridors of the Parliament and speaking with the deputies so that they think about the territory and do not have an urban vision "Albiol claimed.
On the other hand, the ACPTTE recalled that since the implementation of the 'correbous' law and its regulation of good practices, incidents with animals are minimal. The president has relied on a study "from universities and veterinarians" from 2018 to ensure that only 0.29% of a thousand shows of bulls being bulled and led were serious injuries. The period studied is between 2010 and 2017. In livestock farms the figure rises to 5%.
Albiol has announced that this weekend a new study on the capladon bull will be presented at the XVI Symposium on the fighting bull to be held in Zafra (Extremadura) and has advanced that "the results that will be presented follow the same line, 'a practically residual incidence'.
