The French Senate votes for the freedom to pass on the love of bullfighting to minors

Regarding the rejection of this liberticidal proposal, several groups had allowed their members the freedom to vote, considering that it was a societal debate on which each person’s conscience should speak.

However, although the senators who defended this proposal belonged to the environmentalist and extreme left group, a very large and transversal majority, from the right, center and left, has voted against it, with a communist senator standing out in this sense, very forceful in her arguments. .

The decision has been based on fairly clear ideas: when it comes to education and the protection of minors, and about a tradition that constitutes a cultural heritage that is widely established and legalized in the southern regions of the country, it is not appropriate for the State to supplant authority. and the responsibility of parents, and the family bond between generations.

There are currently enough fractures in French society not to reinforce them with the repetitive division between the bullfighting south and the north resistant to that tradition, when human rights are not at stake.

The Senate is an entity whose mission is to represent and reflect the diversity of the territories, their different sensitivities, and not to submit to an impoverishing centralism in the field of culture. In this sense, within the framework of the law, the responsibility of taking the appropriate measures regarding the minors. They have already done so, stipulating that they will not be able to enter the bullrings if, being under 12 years old, they are not accompanied by an adult and under their guardianship.

A senator, from the amateur environment, concluded by assuring that the bullfights, in the cities and towns where they are celebrated, are a party, and that France, at this time, is in great need of parties. That: party, freedom and common sense.