The new National Tauromaquia Award will have the same endowment as other National Culture Awards, 30,000 euros

The new Bullfighting National Prize whose call has been presented this Thursday, will have the same economic endowment as other national culture awards that summons, 30,000 euros. The new award, the Senate, the Toro de Lidia Foundation and 9 Autonomous Communities It will be failed on February 11 at the headquarters of the Government of Castilla-La Mancha, In Toledo.

In addition, the president of the Toro de Lidia Foundation, Victorino Martín explained this Thursday that the jury will be composed of the Senate, the Autonomous Communities of Extremadura, Madrid, Aragon, Region of Murcia, Junta de Andalucía, Cantabria, Community Valencian, Castilla-La Mancha and Castilla y León, the associations of more professionals more professionals representative, personalities of “recognized prestige” of the bullfighting world and some of the national awards of other editions, such as Paco Ojeda y Juan José Padilla.

The call comes after the suspension of the award announced at the beginning of last May by Urtasun, whose decision generated criticism of the head of the Cultural Department, even from some prominent socialist leaders such as the president of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page.

After this decision, the Senate announced that it would host the award in collaboration with the Foundation of the Toro de Lidia, as collected in the agreement signed between the Upper House and the Foundation, to which Europa Press had access

“Freedom is also an afternoon in a bullring”

During the presentation of the call of the new award, which took place at the headquarters of the Government of the Community of Madrid, the president of the community, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, said that “freedom” was an afternoon in a bullring.

“The prize was born thanks to the thrust of the Senate and the agreement to which we have reached 9 autonomous communities. It is a prize full of present and future, and as commented before, the more they try to prohibit it, the more it will proliferate (…) Freedom is also an afternoon in a bullring, “said the president.

Besides, He regretted the “sectarian erase” of the award by government partners and then ensure that politics must be “at the service of art and freedom”, shaving that the Ministry of Culture “pursues and cancels” many artists.

“If they could cancel Picasso Oa Goya, Hemingway or Joaquín Sabina. They have been pursuing and censoring artists for many years. And, meanwhile, they harass all who love an art that is essential. The offensive against bullfighting, “added Díaz Ayuso.

For his part, the president of the Senate, Pedro Rollán, also thanked the Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, for having suppressed the prize. “Thanks to the prohibition, bullfighting is having a rejuvenation and reinforcement as it had not been. Minister, thank you very much“He said.