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Politically, bullfighting is living those days. Ramón Celma's speech in the Cortes de Aragón in defense of bullfighting went viral before the revolution of bullfighting figures. Celma quoted the classical defenders of bullfighting without naming them until the end of his argument. "No one has managed to transmit all the moments of a bullfight like García Lorca ", explains the Deputy Secretary of Communication of the PP of Aragon and spokesman for agriculture, livestock and the environment. He only said their names at the end, relying on Ortega y Gasset , Tierno Galván , the poet from Granada or Joaquín Sabina. Although it is not original, its shape was novel. "This is how I got the message across to everyone who is belligerent with bullfighting," he adds. "They are people of recognized prestige who felt something in a bullring," Celma recalls.

Celma defends bullfighting for "its economy, 132,000 jobs cannot be left aside because some politician does not like it", for its "popular roots. Bulls are inescapably linked to our parties. To our roots. And for their Ecology. Those three points transcend the sector itself . Bullfighting, for example, is the show that contributes the most VAT to the State. " The attitude of the Popular Party towards bullfighting changed due to the presence of Vox, which forced the PP to forget about the low profile. Well, to stop putting yourself in profile. "He has always had clear and clear support for bullfighting," defends Celma. "For example, he defended the development of the cultural heritage law. In addition, there are great fans in the party. The commitment to the bullfighting festival cannot be questioned, among other things because we each have our own way of defending it. make in this sense, given the current circumstances, a defense of freedom. "

"Animalists are a 'lobby'"

"The left has abandoned bullfighting in recent years because it is approaching animalistic postulates, which is a very important lobby of pressure for European progress. Behind animalism there are large multinationals that seek to generate new consumption models . They have collided head-on with the bulls or hunting ", analyzes Ángel López Maraver, deputy of Vox for Guadalajara. Before Abascal's call, he was president of the Royal Spanish Hunting Federation. "The animalists came to tell me that they would kill my wife and hang her in the living room," he recalls. "We are used to this. It is sad." For Maraver "the Government must be committed to destroying sectors . It has the objective of bursting bullfighting. But it did not count on the fact that, beyond the numbers and figures, bullfighting protects a unique environmental system and ensures the work of many people" .

"What they have really done has been to awaken a sector that has asked for forgiveness for existing in recent years. In addition, bullfighting," reflects the Vox politician, "is not only the Maestranza or Las Ventas, it is also the popular festivals in the peoples, the deepest Spanish culture . I think that feeling has been awakened, "explains the success that his intervention has also had during the vote in Congress of the decree on measures to support the cultural sector. Vox took advantage of Uribes' oblivion regarding bullfighting to vote against. A clumsy decision that reopens a trench with the rest of the cultural sectors, as if being in favor of the bulls was being against the rest. "People do not want politicians to take away what makes them happy, " he avoids evaluating the decision of the Maraver party. "In the rostrum, I explained that many left-wing bullfighters supported cultural activities in Franco's time that would not have come without their commitment. That Vox defend the culture of their stinging nation."

Cs' anger

Aragon approved aid to livestock in the region with the favorable vote of Podemos. "He did it because there is a government team and they have to vote en bloc. They swallowed it, period, in order to stay in power ... They are a gang of scoundrels", sums up that full Ramiro Domínguez, deputy of Citizens for Teruel . His anger at the regional chamber also went from one mobile to another: "Those of the bull are not so close [to the minister]. If you go to any town in Aragon, mount a cinema, a musical show, 1,000 or 1,500 people will go . If bulls organize, you have 20,000 " . "I am from the rural world. I know him. I know what the bull is," he justifies those words and his anger. "Here the bull down the street is sacred. I know the money that the ranchers are leaving ."

Domínguez agrees that the animal movement "has a lot of money at stake. Society has not seen a rabbit or a chicken. They take advantage of that. The problem is that society treats the dog as a son and sends parents to the residence . That is the symbol on the left. I know of people from PSOE, Cs and PP who do not like bulls and nothing happens. To me from Ciudadanos they have not told me anything. Bullfighting moves 25 million euros only in Aragon and if some are lost does not seem to matter. The important thing is that everyone has their subsidies, any association of friends of feminists and things like that. It is incredible. "

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