• Madrid Pablo Cobos blows the 90 years of Las Ventas

  • Las Ventas The Community of Madrid donates 106,000 euros from the May 2 festival to "charitable causes linked to the bullfighting sector"

  • San Isidro The incongruities of the CAM in the management of Las Ventas: from turning 12-O into a "bullfighting date" to contradicting Abellán

The Community of Madrid has updated this Saturday the public limit in Las Ventas and has increased it to 50% of the capacity. In other words, it goes from a capacity of 6,000 people planned for the festivities announced on June 26 and July 4, to the possibility of

"developing bullfighting with a pre-assigned seat provided that 50% of the authorized capacity is not exceeded"

, as can be read in the Official Gazette of the CAM.

The authorized capacity of Las Ventas is 23,798 spectators.

With the 50% allowed, 11,899 people could enter the first square in the world

, almost double the 6,000 attendees expected for the first celebrations produced by the Plaza 1 company in a year and a half of the pandemic. In the old rule appeared the tagline "with a maximum attendance limit of 6,000 people", missing from bulletin number 145 published this Saturday.

The bullfights announced, therefore, could develop in a more comfortable way for the company, which would be entitled to expand ticket sales.

With the restriction of 6,000 people, Plaza 1 gave priority to subscribers

. In addition, Simón Casas and Rafael García Garrido reserved, as this newspaper has learned, the possibility of organizing a third celebration in July if some forecasts regarding profitability were met, linked to public attendance. In this way, it seems

that another bullfight could be announced on July 10.

The BOCM also allows

"facilitating the grouping of attendees up to a maximum of six people

."

The update of the CAM together with the announcement of the Government to eliminate the mandatory use of outdoor masks as of Saturday, June 26, the day of the Victorino Martín bullfight,

would give fans the possibility of enjoying an afternoon of bullfighting as before the Covid-19 epidemic

, just when the 90th anniversary of the Monumental is celebrated.

Until now, in the bullrings a minimum safety distance had to be kept and the use of the mask was monitored.

In Leganés or Vistalegre it was also forbidden to smoke or drink

.

Donation

The Community of Madrid has announced the donation of 106,000 euros from the May 2 festival that it organized through its Bullfighting Affairs Center to "charitable causes linked to the bullfighting sector."

The Toro de Lidia Foundation will be in charge of managing the distribution of the funds.

"May 2 marked the return of the bulls to Las Ventas after the stoppage produced by the pandemic,"

the Ayuso Government recalled.

The Bullfighting Affairs Center and the Bullfighting Foundation organized a festival "whose proceeds will help all those families and workers in the bullfighting sector who have suffered greatly in the last months of the pandemic."

The Community of Madrid has insisted that "it has been the Administration that has contributed the most to alleviating the tremendous losses in the bullfighting sector."

On the other hand,

the rebalancing of the Las Ventas bullring contract has not yet been achieved

and there has been erratic management regarding bullfighting, which led Ayuso to prohibit, last summer, the bulls and to open, instead to promote Las Ventas, Vistalegre to organize the other San Isidro.

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