The Council of Bogotá has approved this Tuesday a project to discourage bullfighting in the Colombian capital , a measure that does not eliminate the bullfighting season but does restrict the use of public resources for its development and prohibits the death of the bulls in the plaza.

The initiative, approved with 32 votes in favor, also eliminates the use of elements such as the sword, the pike and the flags , and halves the dates of the annual season that takes place between February and March.

The project, presented by the councilor of the Green Alliance party Andrea Padilla, will now be passed by the mayor Claudia López.

"Eliminate the cutting instruments and the killing of the bull in the plaza, raise taxes, reduce dates and force businessmen to report animal suffering and bear all the costs of their death party, it will be a deadly thrust to this barbarism, " he said. on their social networks Padilla when promoting the project.

The initiative approved this Tuesday also establishes that all the activities carried out during the bullfighting season, which will no longer have eight afternoons but four, must be financed by their organizers .

In addition, the taxable rate for these events was modified and will go from 10 to 20%.

"End this barbarism"

Bullfighting is a controversial issue in Colombia that its supporters define as a cultural and historical tradition , while animal rights advocates maintain that it is a practice in which the animal is tortured.

Councilor Padilla, champion of animal rights, has been a strong opponent of bullfighting and since the Council has promoted public protests against the wild party.

"The project has the potential to definitively end this barbarism! Territorial autonomy!" Padilla said before the vote.

The Colombian Constitutional Court, in ruling on the continuity of bullfights in Bogotá, vetoed in 2012 by the then mayor Gustavo Petro , issued a ruling in 2017 in which it was established that they should be respected in the municipalities where that practice had a cultural roots.

The protests called by Padilla and animal organizations have become stronger in recent years in several cities of the country and in January the mayor of Medellín, Daniel Quintero, confirmed that in his four years of government, the bulls will have no place in the arena of La Macarena.

The mayor of Bogotá and the president of Cali, Jorge Iván Ospina, have spoken in the same sense to openly express their rejection of bullfighting and their intention not to allocate public resources for this activity. The squares of Bogotá, Cali and Manizales are one of the few that are still active in Colombia.

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