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The Junta de Andalucía announced this Tuesday that it plans to reduce the capacity limit to attend bullfighting shows like the one that Enrique Ponce starred in Puerto de Santa María last week, in order to preserve the safety distance of one and a half meters In the public. With this reduction, for example, the capacity of El Puerto would be reduced to approximately 800 people. There were 5,300 on Thursday.

This was advanced by the Minister of the Presidency and spokesman for the Board, Elías Bendodo, during an interview on Onda Cero collected by Servimedia when asked about the controversy that this bullfight unleashed after the images in which areas of the square were apparently seen complete.

Bendodo recalled that the Junta de Andalucía authorized, after the de-escalation, the celebration of bullfighting shows with a "restriction of 50% of capacity" and announced that this limit is going to be further reduced because "we are going to mark one and a half meters of mandatory distance".

Whoever does not comply "is going to find the law and the sanction", which currently establishes fines of 100 euros for not using the mask to 600,000 euros for putting the population at risk.

Bendodo stressed that these sanctions "are being strictly applied" and, regarding the specific case of the bullfight with Enrique Ponce in Puerto de Santa María, he commented that there is "contradictory information" because the organizers "say they comply with the norm" but the Board has opened an independent investigation.

Asked about the absence of public in other sporting events such as football and basketball matches, the Minister of the Presidency recalled that "the Government of Spain reserved" that decision at the beginning of the process of de-escalation of the state of alarm and "the rest was left to criterion of the autonomous communities " , which motivated the Board to authorize bullfights applying criteria" not of cancellation but of restrictive measures. "

In his opinion, "it does not make much sense" that people can attend music concerts in open or closed spaces, as well as bullfights , while they cannot attend football or basketball games, but he insisted that this is a competence of the State, which so decided "with the corresponding leagues."

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