Sumar urges the Government to eliminate any public aid that bullfighting receives and reconvert the bullrings

In the explanatory statement, Sumar points out that attendance at bullfighting is around 1.9 percent of the Spanish population, which is why he defends that public money “stops supporting an activity rejected by the social majority.”

“If bullfighting has, as its defenders maintain, sufficient social support, it should not require subsidies or public support to survive,” Sumar remarks.

In the specific case of the conversion of bullrings, the training gives as an example the case of the old Las Arenas bullring, in Barcelona, transformed into a shopping and leisure center. “These spaces can accommodate cultural, social and economic uses – concert halls, theaters, cultural centers, markets or multipurpose spaces – capable of generating activity and employment without the need to resort to animal suffering,” concludes Sumar.