Iceta affirms that Culture will abide by the Supreme Court ruling and will include the bulls in the Youth Cultural Bonus

• Culture The Supreme requires bulls to be included in the Government's Youth Cultural Bonus

The Minister of Culture and Sports,

, stated this Wednesday, February 8, that his department will abide by the Supreme Court ruling that annuls, due to lack of justification,

.

"There has been a ruling by the Supreme Court and of course we are going to abide by it," Iceta said in the Congress of Deputies when asked about the position of his Ministry after learning of the ruling of the High Court.

The Contentious-Administrative Chamber has upheld the appeal filed by the Fundación Toro de Lidia against the Royal Decree which establishes the rules governing the aforementioned bonus and annuls the expression "and bullfighting" in its article 8.2.

This precept established that

, in addition to sports, the acquisition of stationery products, curricular textbooks, equipment, software, hardware and computer and electronic consumables, artistic material, musical instruments, fashion and gastronomy were not eligible.

The Supreme Court explains that it is not up to it to decide whether bullfighting events are cultural manifestations, since it has been the same legislator that has done so in the affirmative when

.

To this he adds that the Constitutional Court has also made clear the cultural nature of bullfighting.

However, the high court understands that neither in the file nor in the royal decree itself are there reasons that explain the exclusion.

"The ones offered by its preamble do not seem valid for this purpose, since it only says that bullfighting shows are promoted through other instruments and that each administration has the capacity to freely decide the sectors or activities of public interest or utility that it promotes and of what way does it do it", exposes the TS.

The Toro de Lidia Foundation has celebrated the sentence and understands that

".

"What the sentence does is annul the exclusion of bullfighting and if the same thing happens again in the next Decree, it would seem to me something very undemocratic. I'm not saying that they won't do it, but if in the end this happens it would be scandalous from the point of view of respect for the Supreme Court", the vice president of the foundation, Fernando Gomá, explained to Europa Press.

Gomá added that this ruling - which upholds the appeal filed by the Fundación Toro de Lidia itself against the first Royal Decree of the cultural bonus - is not only

.

"It would be wrong for the government to dedicate itself to putting obstacles to a sentence," he pointed out.

In fact, he recalled that

-which is now in the hearing and public information phase- and shows its "collaboration to give the attention that bulls deserve".

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