The Balearic Islands lift the ban on minors so they can go to the bullfights. After seven years of prohibition, the Balearic Parliament, with the votes of the PP and Vox, definitively approves changing the law regulating bullfighting and protecting animals, approved by the previous government of the socialist Francina Armengol, which prevented that “minors should attend bullrings when bullfighting shows are held.”
From now on, minors under 16 can be accompanied by an adult. The obligation to have visible signs warning that the show may offend the sensibilities of spectators is maintained.
The current regional regulations, approved in 2017 by the PSOE, the nationalists of Més and Podemos, considered it an infraction for those under 18 years of age to attend bullfighting celebrations.
Seven years later, Vox proposes to partially modify this article 12 to completely lift the ban on minors, but maintaining the obligation to install inside and outside the bullring and in a visible place a sign warning that the show may hurt the sensitivity of the spectators.
On June 4, the plenary session of Parliament took this proposal into consideration. The PP added a transaction to clarify that minors could attend with the condition that they do so in the company of a adult. And today it has come forward amid reproaches from left-wing parties, which accuse PP and Vox of failing to protect the well-being of minors and “traumatizing children for life” by allowing them to watch this “violent” spectacle.
The PP of Marga Prohens announced that he would vote in favor of this proposal, since it was part of the investiture agreements with Vox, specifically in point 41 of the 110 measures. Vox broke this governance agreement in all regions governed by the PP this summer and Prohens said that from then on its only roadmap would be the PP program. After negotiating point by point, the popular leader has saved this initiative as a gesture with her former partner in the face of the imminent approval of the 2025 budgets. The popular ones give one of lime and another of sand, after knocking down the Vox Linguistic Freedom Office and the parental pin.
In 2017, the left-wing government chaired by Francina Armengol – with votes against the PP and Ciudadanos – approved the so-called law of ‘Balearic style bulls’, a regulation that mutilated the essence of the Bull Festival. Among other controversial points, it prohibited killing the bull in the ring and using banderillas or pujas. In addition, it limited the number of bulls that could be fought in each show to a maximum of three.
Subsequently, the Constitutional Court provisionally suspended the most controversial provisions after accepting the appeal of the Government of Spain for processing. Mariano Rajoy’s executive alleged that the Balearic Parliament did not have the power to approve this law, which, in addition, failed to comply with certain precepts of state laws on intangible heritage and bullfighting.
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