The full City Council Santander of May came with major surprise. a motion, importantly, brought forward although it is said that there are other priorities, because each section has its own priorities.
A motion was lost when he began full at 09:00 am and , as our columnist Israel Ruiz says on Twitter, he was paid 1 x 500 at Bwin gambling portal. He was one of many netizens who celebrated on the Net this progress against bullfighting practices.
The proposal was ambitious can Santander Yes. Included removing public subsidies to bullfighting in Santander, regulate entry to minors, stop giving fertilizers and conduct a public consultation on continuing to hold these activities in the city.
The photo of this historic day was between Russell Simoni, Antonio Mantecon, Susana Ruiz (Citizen Council Santande if you can) and Aurora Hernandez, PSOE councilor.
the latter was the big hurdle, great barrier that prevented the support of citizens, whose votes were crucial and had anticipated that refused flatly to submit bullfighting referendum. So they working around the clock, from the PSOE agreed to a compromise to the proposal Santander Yes may eliminated the popular consultation and qualified the issue of children in the streets.
The rest was the same and, such is approved, with the only votes against the PP, taking by surprise to most and causing an immense joy in the animal advocates who see this step as “historic”.
“WE WANT THAT DISCRIMINATION tO TORO POLICY oF aNIMAL PROTECTION “
in the full Russell Simoni, activist for animal rights and promoter of Footprints Cantabria, association and radio section in Radio Costa Esmeralda was NOT GET . She has worked with councilors Santander Yes you can in the development of the motion and also with the PSOE seeking to reach “common understandings” and lived with emotion.
“We liked that all opposition one to say enough of subsidies, and more for the celebrations that have been reduced by 40% in recent years, “he says, with special emphasis on the section that supports” keep children away in bullfighting “.
“Many experts relate the terrible problem of animal abuse and neglect (of which Spain is sadly European leader) with desensitization that occurs expose bullfighting from as short childhood”
“it is a request that many experts have long been doing,” he says. “Already at the time many scientists and scholars sent a letter to Congress of Deputies to regulate this issue, and has also been requested from the UN.”
And, as revealed Simoni, ” many experts relate the terrible problem of animal abuse and neglect (of which Spain is sadly European leader) with desensitization that occurs expose bullfighting from as short childhood. “
The animal advocates celebrated this progress on Twitter.
Although he did not go ahead consultation and has not been spoken of prohibitions, Simoni believes that eventually falling bullfighting festival alone. “What happened yesterday seems a victory image, something symbolic to do political parties position themselves and discuss the theme” highlights, and notes surveys that reveal the sharp drop in popular support for bullfighting and, above all, one that says that 84% of young respondents are ashamed that the image of Spain is linked to this practice.
so the debate of the past year is focusing mainly on public subsidies that support the party. “Many people ask what is not to be an accomplice of bullfighting” insists Simone, clarifying that they are not talking about banning anything but that “stop discriminating and excluding the bull in the animal protection laws.” “All are equal, all feel the same. Animals are not to entertain them and have no right to mistreat, torture or subjecting them to humiliation …. And less for fun “
AVATMA.” WE HAVE ADVANCED MUCH MORE IN A YEAR IN THE LAST TWENTY “
Next to Footprints, the other organization actively working both in Cantabria as in the rest of Spain against this practice is AVATMA, the Association of Veterinary Anti Taurinos and against animal abuse.
Its president, José Enrique Zaldivar, welcomes this development. “It’s a lovely and surprising news. I was pretty skeptical, “he confesses, although he is cautious. “We do not know exactly the figure that represents exactly the withdrawal of subsidies because last year the City Council decided to increase the budget to 125,000 or 225,000 euros because the Fair of Santiago gave losses” account.
Also this year PP and Citizens have already brought forward a budget of 1,200,000 euros for the fair, so Zaldivar do not know whether this resolution will enter into force this year or next.
The surprise was seen even with memes.
However, Zaldivar shows a rather optimistic view of the anti-bullfighting struggle and believes that new times will bring political progress in the next legislature. “We have a number of proposals and non-legislative proposals registered in Congress, to see if the next government supports them.”
He believes that “have advanced much more in one year than in the last twenty “because since the last regional and municipal elections has brought forward the debate on subsidies and this has worked very well.
in cases like Bilbao there have been losses of more than 135,000 euros, and Caceres, Cordoba Baleares has already been left without bullfights not count on public support. In other cases they have had to ‘pull’ prices to try to call more people, as in the Feria de San Isidro where they got a season ticket for children under 30 years 1,64 euros. “Even the bullfighters are lowering their cache. There is the effect subsidies, both saying they were profitable without public aid. Of course, now many municipalities are much lower prices for rental places, which no longer a covert also grant “alert.
On the popular consultations, Zaldivar believes that make no sense neither. “Ask me if you agree or disagree about mistreating animals is the same as to imagine a thief voting on the legal status of the theft, or a rapist reviewing the legal status of the violation,” he says.
since PACMA, the animalistic party, also positively assessed although this measure as “insufficient” because “what we want is to ban it,” says his spokesman Laura Duarte. “The only way to end brave the ban bullfights is because it does not guarantee that will not celebrate the Feria de Santiago”, it is feared.
They are also not in favor of a referendum. “We believe it is not something to be consulted, would not accept to consult on other forms of violence,” he insists and asks that “legal measures to ban animal torture” do
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