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The right-hander Enrique

Ponce

fought last Sunday in the Las Ventas bullring with a jacket whose buttons were effigies of the dictator Francisco Franco.

As can be seen in the photographs taken before the celebration in the Las Ventas horse yard, Ponce wore a country suit, made up of a gray velvet jacket with silver buttons that mimicked the

50-peseta

coins

of the Franco's time

, with the effigy of the dictator and the corresponding slogans that were coined on them.

Detail of one of the coins

Speaking to Efe, the manager of the bullfighter, Juan Ruiz, has downplayed the buttoning that the Valencian right-hander wore:

"There is no bigger story about it

.

"

"He likes to put coins as buttons"

"Enrique has had that country suit, as he has others with other types of coins, for a long time. And he has already worn it a few times in various places without causing so much fuss.

He likes to put coins as buttons, he gives the same as they are

, so I don't think we have to draw further conclusions from the matter, "insisted the young manager of the bullfighter.

As Efe has collected, the bullfighter himself has been surprised that this circumstance transcends and has been able to annoy someone, while, he says

, it has "nothing to do with that stage" in the history of Spain.

"Simply," explains Ponce, "I like to use old coins in my suits, and I have them from Isabel II, Alfonso XIII, the emeritus king, the current Monarch and also from Franco (...)

I made that jacket not for Franco, but for the coin itself. "

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