The Ministry of Culture will recover, in collaboration with other communities, the National Bullfighting Award, suppressed by the Government, with the same financial award, 30,000 euros. The first vice president and counselor of the branch (Vox), Vicente Barrera, has announced that this distinction will be maintained as long as the “censorship” of the Ministry lasts, whom he has accused of “single thinking,” and the headquarters will rotate among the interested territories. .
In that sense, the councilor and former bullfighter explained that after the announcement last Friday by the Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun (Sumar), that he was suppressing this award starting this year, several proposals came out from the Valencian Community and from Madrid and Extremadura to recover the award. “I haven’t necessarily driven it. We joined the Extremadura proposal and now we are talking among the Culture Councilors of different communities, but it is not that I necessarily lead this,” he noted.
In this way, it has guaranteed that this award will be granted in 2024 and in subsequent years as long as “censorship lasts” and “the single thought and non-compliance with its legal obligations continue to exist, which is the promotion of Culture and not dictating.” the Culture according to their opinions, personal tastes or according to their phobias or personal philias.”
Barrera has clarified that the headquarters will rotate among the interested communities if this suppression “lengthens over time” and at the moment it is unknown when it will begin. In this regard, he has declined to list the territories that will join the award until they officially confirm it. “We are working on it, those who want will join voluntarily and those who don’t, there is no problem,” he said.
This award would thus be added to the new award that the Department of Justice will award in the Bullfighting Awards of the Valencian Community ‘Va de Bous’, an ‘Honorable Mention in Defense of Cultural Heritage Bullfighting’. “
In this regard, the Minister of Justice and Interior, Elisa Núñez, has pointed out that this new distinction is due to the fact that from the institutions “we must support our traditions” and part of her department because it is in charge of authorizing the bullfighting celebrations that are celebrated in the towns. Last year, she recalled, 8,685 bullfighting events were held throughout the Valencian Community.
Thus, he pointed out that the ‘Va de Bous’ awards were already held and that now they have considered it “good” to add that mention to “make visible something that is an absolutely Spanish tradition and that it is up to us as institutions to defend and promote.”
Núñez, in response to criticism of these celebrations, has replied: “There are many opinions, there are also many others who think that it is a party, that it is the party that is seen in our streets, that moves our economy and that allows coexistence in peace among our citizens.”
