The Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, has framed the decision of the Ministry of Culture of Ernest Urtasun to suppress the National Bullfighting Award in a “own competition” of his department, while considering it “compatible” with the idea proposed by the president of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page, of creating national Bullfighting Awards.
This is how Minister Torres reacted in an interview in La Sexta, reported by Europa Press, to this decision by Ernest Urtasun’s Ministry of Culture to suppress the National Bullfighting Award in the face of the “increase” in concern for animal welfare.
In this context, Ángel Víctor Torres has framed it in a “own competence” of the Minister of Culture, calling on Urtasun himself to explain this decision, while recalling that in the Canary Islands, where he comes from, there are no bullfights.
And regarding Page’s announcement of the possibility of creating national bullfighting awards from Castilla-La Mancha, Ángel Víctor Torres sees both initiatives as “respectable”, claiming that “they are compatible postulates.”
“I think they are both absolutely respectable initiatives, a Ministry being able to withdraw a certain award and then a community re-imposing or proposing it, it does not seem to me that there is divergence, but that they are postulates of the different public administrations and are compatible,” Torres said. .