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epa02954712 Spanish bullfighter Juan Jose Padilla is gored in the head by his second bull during the bullfighting at the Zaragoza bullring on the ocassion of El Pilar Fair, in Zaragoza, Spain, 07 October 2011. Padilla suffered serious injuries, reports state. EPA/JAVIER CEBOLLADA ATTENTION EDITORS: GRAPHIC CONTENT

The parliament of the Balearic Islands has voted in favour of a proposal to initiate a ban on bullfighting and animal fiestas in the autonomous community. Following the vote, a legislative proposal needs to be presented to modify the Animal Protection Law 1/1992 by including a bullfighting and bull fiesta ban. It is foreseen that the Parliament will vote to approve the proposal later this year, which would render the Balearic Islands bullfighting free. 

Dr Joanna Swabe, executive director of Humane Society International (Europe), welcomed this encouraging step: “We applaud the Balearic Islands MPs for proving once again that these cruel and outdated spectacles should be relegated to the annals of history. It is high time to put a definitive end to bullfighting wherever it takes place.”

 The Motion for a Resolution 6790/15 presented by the Parliamentary Groups Podem Illes Balears, Socialista, MÉS per Mallorca, MÉS per Menorca and Mixt (Gent x Formentera) intends to revise the Animal Protection Law 1/1992 of the Balearic Islands to prohibit all types of fiestas involving bulls and the use of public funds to subsidise bullfights.
HSI strongly encourages politicians of the Balearic Islands to follow-up this first step with a legislative proposal that would outlaw bullfighting and animal fiestas once and for all.  The Balearic Islands would then become the third Spanish autonomous community, after the Canary Islands and Catalonia, to ban bullfighting.
Facts:
  • More than 30 towns located in the Balearic Islands have already voiced their opposition to the barbaric practice that is bullfighting.
  • Humane Society International supports the Mallorca Without Blood initiative, led by AnimaNaturalis and CAS International, which aims to end bullfighting in the Balearic Islands.

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