Wednesday, 07 July 2010 09:30

The ILP was declared admissible on 18 December when a total of 67 of the 135 deputies of the House voted to allow discussion could continue. The Catalan parliament will decide next July 28 whether to ban bullfighting in Catalonia, as requested by a Popular Legislative Initiative (ILP) endorsed by the signature of 180,000 people. According to parliamentary sources consulted by Efe, the groups have agreed to set for the last plenary session of the Catalan Parliament before the summer's debate this initiative has generated so much controversy.

The ILP was declared admissible on 18 December when a total of 67 of the 135 deputies of the House voted to allow discussion could continue. In this way, they defeated all the amendments tabled by the PSC, PP and Citizens, backed by 59 deputies in favor of the runs, while five MPs abstained and four did not participate.



Looking to the final debate, anti-bullfighting bulls and agree that everything depends on the votes of 48 deputies of the CiU, which bowed the previous ballot to ban most of the bulls. It will also be important to know whether all members of the PSC-CpC, which total 37 MPs, will vote en bloc in support of bullfighting, because now there will be no free vote.



Of the amendments tabled by the parliamentary groups to the original text of the ILP, which has more parliamentary support is one of CiU posed hypothetical start implementing the ban on bullfighting in Catalonia from January 1, 2012. And is that the promoters of the popular legislative initiative which seeks to abolish bullfighting in Catalonia, the Platform Prou! (Enough!) Agree that "technical moratorium" to abolish bullfighting in Catalonia. In the last full year is also expected to approve a bill regulating the correbous-bullfights without death of the animal in Catalonia.