The Popular Party (PP) in Arrecife Ayuntamiento has withdrawn the motion to recognise bullfighting as protected cultural heritage.
The motion will technically stand, as the agenda for Friday’s council meeting has already been drawn up, but the PP have said “it will not be debated or approved.”
They claim the motion was included by mistake, and the text was intended for other councils on mainland Spain where bullfighting remains a living tradition.
The motion was sharply criticised by the Lanzarote En Pié party and the Franz Weber Foundation, which called it “surreal.”
Bullfighting is not specifically forbidden in the Canaries, but the 1991 law prohibits “the use of animals in fights, fiestas and other spectacles that involves mistreatment and cruelty.”
However, in the highly unlikely event that anybody might want to stage a bullfight on the islands, the Canarian law could be overridden by the 2013 decision of the Spanish government to list the practice as protected cultural heritage.
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