Defenders and adversaries of bullfighting mobilized Saturday before a vote of the National Assembly on a bill aimed at abolishing this practice. Rejected on Wednesday in committee, she is unlikely to succeed.
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Two hundred eighteen elected officials “of different sensitivities and territories”, including Christophe Castaner and Bruno Retailleau, sign on the website of the Sunday Journal (JDD) A tribune To defend bullfighting and other “traditions” facing “eco-tootalitarianism”.
Defenders and adversaries of Tauromachie were mobilized on Saturday through France, before a vote of the National Assembly on a bill by deputy Aymeric Caron (La France Insoumise) aimed at abolishing this practice. Rejected on Wednesday in committee, she is unlikely to succeed. Its examination in the hemicycle is in principle scheduled for Thursday.
“Prohibiting bullfighting is prohibiting a culture and humiliating part of our fellow citizens. We will not accept it”, write the signatories of the gallery, parliamentarians or local elected officials.
” Allow everyone to live their culture “
“From Christmas tree to hunt, from friendly barbecue to children’s dreams to become a aviator, we do not want to ban, norm, delete, erase”, they write. They promise to be “fierce defenders of freedom, and opponents resolved to eco-tootalitarianism, while respecting the law, to allow everyone to live their culture”.
“We believe in progress, the fight against global warming, the defense of the animal condition, and we work there; but that should not serve as a alibi to erase our cultural singularities, our regional markers, erase The diversity of what we are, flout the respect of others and the fraternity that founds our republic “, they say.
Among the signatories, former Interior Minister Christophe Castaner, the boss of the Senators Les Républicains Bruno Retailleau. But also a number of senators – including the president of the RDPI group with a majority Renaissance, François Patriat, the vice -president of the Senate Nathalie Delattre (RDSE with a radical majority). Several deputies, including the general rapporteur of the budget Jean-René Cazeneuve (Renaissance) and the president of the Modem group Jean-Paul Mattei, as well as regional presidents, such as Renaud Muselier, department, or even mayors, also signed this Tribune.