• Bulls Las Ventas contract extended until June 2022

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The doors of Las Ventas will reopen in spring if the coronavirus allows it.

This is at least the forecast of the Community of Madrid for the bullfights to return to the capital's bullring

after a "blank year" due to the pandemic

.

"We are now planning 2021 thinking that

Covid will allow us to develop all the aspirations

that we have to continue supporting bullfighting and allow all Madrilenians and anyone who may come to continue enjoying the number one spot in the world," he explains Eugenia Carballedo, Minister of the Presidency in the Government of Isabel Díaz Ayuso, in statements to this newspaper.

The reopening will be conditioned to the evolution of infections during the coming months and will have to be authorized by the General Directorate of Public Health, which will be the one who sets the conditions for access to the interior, such as the foreseeable reduction in capacity.

In any case, the objective with which the Puerta del Sol works is that next year

the San Isidro poster can be placed

, which in a normal season involves an influx of 600,000 spectators.

In Plaza 1, the concessionaire of the management of Las Ventas, they do not rule out that this calendar can be fulfilled, but they admit that they see it as "complicated.

"I would bet on an important fair in September,"

its CEO, Rafael García Garrido, ventured last week in an interview on Movistar Plus, reports

Gonzalo I. Welcome

.

Building renovation

At

the

same time,

the regional Executive is going to rethink the rehabilitation project of

a building inaugurated 90 years ago and classified as a Site of Cultural Interest, although at the moment no specific details are offered of what the scope of the change will be.

According to the Minister of the Presidency, if now "a great work is done to paralyze the festivities" it would be "sacrificing and asking a lot from the world of the bull, which is suffering so much."

"Right now the authorizations for the celebration of mass events or acts are very strict and of course the square has to comply strictly with them as it has done so far; if not, it would have been unthinkable even to have awarded the contract and announced the schedule that was going to come out with the 2020 poster, "Carballedo responds when asked if access would be safe given that

some actions that were already planned

in the previous legislature

will be

" parked. "

Las Ventas is

pending a comprehensive reform that would turn it into a multipurpose space

.

Except for bullfighting celebrations, to which an exception applies, since 2018 the organization of the rest of the events needs the approval of the Madrid City Council and the technicians have considered on more than one occasion that the venue does not comply with the guarantees required for holding concerts, for example.

However, the regional government insist that

"measures are taken to make the square safe"

, but that "it can be much more so, just as it can be accessible."

"In this sense the work will be directed", they assure.

Economic compensation

Due to the suspension of activity in Las Ventas due to the health alert caused by the pandemic, the Community of Madrid and the concessionaire company have reached an agreement to extend the period of completion of the concession to "face the restoration of economic balance of the contract".

Thus, instead of expiring at the end of next year, in principle it is scheduled to

last until June 2022.

This compensation, provided for in the decree law of extraordinary urgent measures to face the economic and social impact of Covid-19, corresponds to the three months in which the first state of alarm was in force.

Now the parties are

negotiating the formula to balance the rest of 2020

, since the "fee is high" and the promoters of the square "have had no income," as they recognize in Ayuso's team.

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