The president of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, will attend the Plaza de Toros de las Ventas in Madrid next week during the San Isidro Fair to support bullfighting and “defend cultural freedom” in Spain after the Ministry of Culture , led by Ernest Urtasun, decided last week to suppress the National Bullfighting Prize.
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Cutura decided to eliminate the award for bullfighting, considering that the national awards should be “a faithful reflection of the values and feelings of society,” such as the increase in concern for animal welfare.
Precisely, the entities in charge of the promotion and defense of bullfighting in eight bullfighting countries have decided to establish the International Council of Bullfighting Cultures and this Friday, May 10, right at the beginning of the San Isidro Fair, they will sign an international collaboration agreement for the defense and dissemination of bullfighting in Las Ventas de Madrid.
This Wednesday, Minister Urtasun advocated opening a “general reflection” about animal abuse in an interview on RAC1, in which he defended that “there is a majority of society that does not tolerate animal abuse, much less that it is rewarded with money.” public".
Asked about the criticism of his decision from certain sectors of the PSOE, he revealed that this party "is not very clear" about its position on bullfighting, as witnessed by the positions of the Castilian-Manchego president, Emiliano García-Page, and the PSC candidate for the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, whom he asked to work so that his party votes against the PP motion in the Senate to recover the National Bullfighting Award.
Urtasun defended that the decision to suppress the National Bullfighting Award is a responsibility of the Ministry of Culture and noted that attendance at bullfighting festivals is falling in Spain, as evidenced by the fact that 1.9% of the Spanish population comes to see them.
Urtasun eluded to answer whether bullfighting is culture and presented it as “a tradition of many years in Spain and Catalonia”, where he recalled that Barcelona once had up to three bullrings. Despite this, he made it clear that "traditions evolve and today the majority of the population understands that animal abuse should not be rewarded and paid for with public money."
He also added that the National Bullfighting Award was created in 2011 in parallel to the ban on bullfighting in Catalonia, a premise that allowed him to confirm that the elimination of this award means reversing "a relatively recent decision."
