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  • Bulls.The Party returns to Mallorca

Against the antitaurinos, Manolo Escobar. Faced with the cries of "murderers", the Long Live Spain . The organizers of the bullfight that took place this Friday night at the Balearic Coliseum found the best weapon to silence the protests of the more than 300 detractors of the National Party concentrated at the door of the square. A huge baffle with thunderous music was enough to minimize a demonstration that turned out to be much more numerous than the one held in the same place two years ago, when the last celebration took place before the adoption of the Balearic Bulls Act.

The supporters of maintaining the runs did not make so much noise, but they made their support clear in the way they most wanted: occupying their seats in the stands of a Balearic Coliseum that registered a grand entrance. And all, seasoned with large doses of party. Because in addition to music there was dance, palms and joy with which to celebrate the return of the bulls to Mallorca after their political-judicial journey, first in the Parliament and finally in the Constitutional Court.

The shouts, the protests, the banners and the claims, against the bulls - the detractors - and "in favor of freedom" - the supporters - followed throughout the afternoon in front of the Balearic Coliseum, although the numerous presence of troops from the National Police and the Local Police served to maintain order. Yes, we had to proceed with the identification of half a dozen excessively exalted people in defense of their positions, but the thing did not happen to adults.

In the middle of the party even the national anthem was sounded, as a way of proclaiming the Spanishness of the Islands against what some supporters of the bullfights understand as an "imposition of Catalanism." Among those who were placed behind the banners of It is not culture, it is torture were several members of Podemos, such as its organization secretary, Alejandro López . There was also the former of Podemos who was president of the Balearic Parliament, Chelo Huertas . Across the sidewalk, representatives of the Popular Party - Maria Salom - and Vox - Jorge Campos - were seen to show their support for a show that also brought together hundreds of tourists.

For the Pacma animalist party, what happened this Friday at the Balearic Coliseum represents a "setback" and an "involution", which they directly accuse the Constitutional, for having prevented - among other things - that the prohibition that, according to the Autonomous normative text, prevented the death of the animals during the runs. From the Associació Animalista de Balears (Assaib), Luis Miguel Pérez also protested the fact that the island institutions "have not canceled the run despite the deficiencies of the bullring", which were defined as "mild" by the Palma City Hall. We also wanted to show his "rejection" to the run, and noted for his "co-responsibility" to the current president of the acting Government, Pedro Sánchez.

Precisely, the Toro de Lidia Foundation celebrated that the Court No. 1 of the Contentious-Administrative Court of Palma has condemned the City of Binissalem after declaring an anti-bullfighting location in 2016 . The session, in the Plenary Session held on November 2, 2015, had issued an agreement declaring itself "anti-bullfighting and contrary to bullfighting" and promised to request a new Animal Protection Law that "prohibited any show with Bulls". The Judgment dictates that the City Council is not limited in its text to make a mere ideological expression (main argument used by the Consistory) but that it is a statement with practical effects and contrary to the Law.

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