Catalonia Calls Time On Bullfights with Historic Vote
News is coming in that the Parliament of Catalonia has passed a bill banning bullfighting.
It was a fairly tight run thing with the bill passed by 68 votes in favour of the ban, 55 against and nine abstentions.
With this legislation, Catalonia will become only the second independent community in Spain, after the Canary Islands, to ban bullfighting.
The ban will, however, not come into affect until January 2012 but is the culmination of a judicial battle began in 2008 when campainers handed in a petition to parliament containing 180,000 signatures demanding an end to the practice.
Nevertheless, that probably won’t stop animal rights activists and others, both in Spain and across the world, from celebrating, what they will see as, a huge victory for their cause and a big step forward towards their goal of having the ‘sport’ banned throughout Spain.