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Bullfighting has entered the electoral struggle for the Community of Madrid.

It is about the politicization of the second mass spectacle, a sector that generates

"70 million euros"

for the Community, in the words of President Isabel Díaz

Ayuso

.

If this Thursday the PP candidate for the 4-M elections took advantage of the tribute to Víctor Barrio in Las Ventas - a

collage

of the artist Luis Gordillo was

discovered -

to announce a rescue plan for the sector, together with the bullfighters

José Tomás

and

José Maria Manzanares

, Pablo

Iglesias

, candidate of Podemos, promised the closure of the Community Bullfighting Affairs Center and the elimination of "all aid to bullfighting."

Iglesias said of the entity directed by Miguel Abellán that "it was a phantom body without powers."

Ayuso attended, together with the mayor of the city of Madrid, José Luis Martínez

Almeida

, the act that commemorated the bullfighter who died in the Teruel bullring in the summer of 2016. «Little by little we are going to regain normalcy in all cultural spaces ”, said Díaz Ayuso in the Monumental de Las Ventas.

"Our interest is to recover, even in part, this very important festivity as bullfighting," he

said after revealing the signing of an agreement with the Toro de Lidia Foundation to celebrate "a tour of 18 festivities" in towns of less than 8,000 inhabitants of the region, which represents a bottle of oxygen to the sector.

Ayuso emphasized his defense of bullfighting "with facts"

, despite the fact that in September he prohibited the celebration of bullfights in the Community of Madrid.

Then he disavowed the celebration of the festivities announced in Alcalá de Henares, San Sebastián de los Reyes, Aranjuez or Miraflores de la Sierra, freezing the season's programming when the most lax restrictions were executed.

On that same date, the Community allocated 4.5 million to support bullfighting bull breeders from Madrid.

The Community does not comply

On the other hand, the Community has not complied with its part of the Las Ventas exploitation specifications.

The building, declared a historical artistic heritage in 1994, is very profitable.

Its exploitation has left

52 million euros in

the public treasury

in 15 years

.

However, Ayuso has not activated the pending works in a season without bulls.

Without undertaking the reforms to which the regional Executive committed when awarding its exploitation to Plaza 1 for a fee that is close to three million euros per year, celebrations cannot be held in Las Ventas because the building, from 1929, does not comply with the current security requirements.

For example, orderly access to the site is unfeasible in the midst of a pandemic.

The City Council and the Community signed in July "an alliance for bullfighting" for "the promotion and protection" of bulls in the capital.

Almeida sent "a message of support and encouragement" to

"one of the most important cultural events in Spain

.

"

In the coming days, the Community will decide whether or not to give the green light to the San Isidro de Carabanchel Fair, the series of bullfighting festivities announced in May.

The Matilla company has scheduled 10 consecutive days of bullfighting, from 13 to 23, with the main figures, as EL MUNDO announced exclusively.

Animal Protection

The intention of Pablo Iglesias is "to advance in the protection of animals."

The Podemos candidate announced his "anti-bullfighting" measures at an animal protection center

.

The objective, as detailed in the purple training, is to allocate more resources to the animal care centers.

In the image and likeness of what happened in the central Executive, where, as a result of the coalition Government, the

"first General Directorate of Animal Rights"

has been created

.

In 2018, facing the 2019 elections, Podemos proposed to hold a "referendum" on the prohibition of bulls.

Iglesias already advocated removing subsidies for bullfighting.

Simón Casas

, the French businessman from Las Ventas, considers Iglesias' position a

“lack of respect for the mission of the politician

, which is to respect the diversity of the people.

It goes against freedom and democracy.

For the Toro de Lidia Foundation,

“Podemos has abandoned the banner of environmentalism

.

He proposes to eliminate part of popular culture.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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