The increase in numbers has been attributed, at least in part, to new subsidies which have been provided to bullfighting in regions such as Madrid and Castilla y León, both governed by right-wing parties. The association said the figures reflect “the large presence and deep roots of bullfighting the length and breadth of Spain”. Juan López de Uralde, an MP for Unidas Podemos, said his party was against the use of the culture coupon for “a bloody spectacle based on the suffering of an animal”.īullfighting fully recovered from the pandemic, with more than 20,000 corridas and bull-related events held in 2022, more than in 2019, according to figures released by the National Association of Bull Spectacle Organisers. Its junior partner in the governing coalition, the leftist Unidas Podemos, is stridently opposed. The Socialist Party has had an ambivalent stance on the issue, although some of its leading politicians openly support bullfighting. The supreme court eventually ruled that bullfighting should be included. It appealed to Mr Iceta, who is Catalan, “as culture minister, a senior figure within the Catalan Socialist Party and a citizen who loves freedom, to allow and encourage the return of bullfights to Catalonia”.Įarlier this year, Mr Iceta was at the centre of a political storm when the government attempted to exclude bullfighting from events that young people could attend using a new €400 annual “culture coupon”. The federation said it was significant that a government minister had appeared in an official capacity at a bullfight. The move comes after the left-wing administration’s minister for culture, Miquel Iceta, was seen next to King Felipe VI at a bullfight during the San Isidro festival in Madrid’s Las Ventas bullring on Sunday. However, the Catalan Bullfighting Federation, which represents organisations that support the activity, has asked the Spanish government to promote the return of “corridas” to the region. Although the Spanish constitutional court overturned that decision four years later, the tradition has been absent from the northeastern region ever since.
More than a decade after bullfighting was banned in Catalonia, its supporters are calling for it to be reintroduced, as Spain sees an apparent resurgence of the divisive pastime.Ī ban on bullfighting, approved by the local parliament, was introduced in Catalonia in 2012.
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