The candidate for the European elections of Podemos, Irene Montero and the general secretary of Podemos, Ione Belarra, have signed this Friday, April 26, a Popular Legislative Initiative (ILP) against bullfighting and highlight that “the vast majority” of Spanish citizens who They are “favorable to animal rights.”
“We come to give this support to the popular legislative initiative by which we intend to fulfill the will of the majority of citizens, who do not consider that torture, that animal abuse is culture and has to be protected as part of our cultural heritage. There is an immense social majority in Spain that is favorable to animal rights,” Montero said in statements to the media at the Plaza de Ventas in Madrid.
The ILP, proposed last March by several animal rights groups, seeks to obtain half a million signatures to repeal the Law that considers bullfighting to be intangible cultural heritage. The president of the organization Torture is not Culture and member of the ILP promoter, Marta Esteban, pointed out the need for this initiative because “as long as bullfighting is intangible cultural heritage, it is protected.”
In that sense, Montero explained that this is “a first step” to ensure that the autonomous communities do not finance these “macabre spectacles” with public money.
“A show where even children go, contravening the United Nations. We are going to continue working so that at least with public money we do not continue financing this type of show where animals are mistreated,” he added.
Montero and Belarra have been accompanied by the coordinator of Alianza Verde, Juantxo López de Uralde; the spokesperson for Podemos, Isa Serra, and the deputy in the Murcia Assembly, María Marín. López de Uralde has assured that citizens are “increasingly further away” from bullfighting being considered a “cultural asset”, because it should not be something representative of Spanish culture.