Sunday, March 1, 2015

García-Escudero urges a renewed love of bullfighting as collateral … – euronews

García-Escudero urges a renewed love of bullfighting as collateral … – euronews

Reuters, 01/03 18:51 CET

 The President of the Senate, Pio Garcia Escudero, during the closing ceremony of the First International Congress held in Albacete Bullfighting. EFE President of the Senate, Pio Garcia Escudero, during the Closing of the First International Congress held in Albacete Bullfighting. EFE

Albacete, March 1 ( EFE ) .- The president of the Senate, Pio Garcia Escudero, has urged all sectors of the bullfighting world to seek solutions to be a “renewal in the hobby” as understood to be “a major alarms” in this “capital asset”.

García-Escudero, who closed the First International Conference on Bullfighting, held this weekend in Albacete, stressed that “the future of the party is in the hobby” and is confident that the Constitutional Court “to rule soon” about the ban on bullfighting in Catalonia and do it to for bullfighting.

“This I say first as an amateur,” Garcia-Escudero, who has detailed his love “for this art” dates back to long before indicated that his political career .

You have insisted on the need to work for that bullfighting is declared by UNESCO Intangible Heritage of Humanity and end the “topic” of “bullfighting and flamenco, which are much more than a issue. “

In his speech on the stage of the Teatro Circo de Albacete has argued that” Bullfighting is an art and that’s obvious “, which has been questioned” why we must defend what obvious. “

You have asserted that in Catalonia have tried to stop this party,” as I tried popes, kings, politicians of the Enlightenment or the generation of 98 “but was convinced that” they will not get, because art, freedom, culture, can not be forbidden. “

Although it has reiterated that the party needs to ensure generational change in the hobby and also allow new toreros through the ranks.

You have argued that the measure of Catalonia was the “trigger” to awaken the sector in the defense of the party and has urged all governments included, “to seek joint solutions because we do not live an easy time ‘He said – “

In fact, indicated that since the beginning of the crisis bullfights have fallen by 50% in the country

On.. part, the president of Castilla-La Mancha, María Dolores de Cospedal, said that the First International Congress of bullfighting is “a success” because “fans, fighters, farmers and institutions” that both have been implicated in this appointment.

The regional president, told reporters on his entry into the day today, praised the work done by the Ministry of Education “for the contribution it has made to the this congress “as well as the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports of the Government of Castilla-La Mancha.

And he thanked the city of Albacete,” which both helped to development of this international event, the first defending bullfighting as cultural heritage. “

” It’s very important that Albacete, Castilla-La Mancha are recognized as a land that defends cultural values ​​and cultural heritage ” has emphasized.

In a round table, taurine cattle José Javier Núñez Cervera has shown that if the number of bullfights has dropped about 50% by the crisis in the country, ” the bull of people, basic, squares third, has dropped to 67%. “

And has warned of the risks of this decline” because it is in the villages where hobby ago from where the bullfighters “.

You have indicated that the crisis of the show is” direct correlation “of the economic situation in the country, but has asked the industry to” analyze what we have done bad to lose both the bull base “and lamented that” we continue with the economic model years, when there was IVA or direct taxes “, which urged to seek joint solutions.

The Professor of Applied Economics José María O’Kean recommended to go “to a sponsorship model because the box office with no expenses are covered.”

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