The Andalucian Parliament Bureau has agreed to accept a legislative initiative from the Commission Investigating Animal Abuse (CIMA) to make an amendment to the regional law of animal protection to place a ban on bullfighting within the region as well as prohibiting any bull shows which result in the death or suffering of the animal.
CIMA will then have four months to collect a minimum of 75,000 signatures from voters in Andalucia for the long-winded process to continue.
However, the move is highly unlikely to succeed as both the major parties, the ruling PSOE and opposition PP, have both expressed their opposition to any sort of ban on bullfighting. Even if the people (voters) come out in favour of a ban, the parties will no doubt win the day by one means or another.
If an overwhelming number of voters were found to be in favour of a ban, presumably the only way it would ever get passed into law would be if the Andalucian Parliament were given a free vote, as happened in Cataluña, with the politicians being forced to listen to the electorate (who put them there) and vote according to their wishes, not the party’s.
One can see a number of social media campaigns springing up in the next few months, a powerful medium these days.