The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, has asked Congress to approve the law that suspends shows that include animal abuse after the Constitutional Court suspended the ban on bullfighting in Bogota until the congressmen make a decision in this regard.
Petro has made mention to the sentence of the Constitutional Court that points out «that it is the Congress through the law, the only entity that can suspend bullfights in places of proven bullfighting tradition» and for this reason he has requested the approval of such legislation «to suspend all spectacles with animal mistreatment».
On Tuesday, the Constitutional Court ordered the Mayor’s Office of Bogota to refrain from taking measures that would prevent compliance with a 2013 ruling that restored the capacity of the Santamaria bullring to carry out this type of spectacles as long as the Congress did not pronounce otherwise.
The Mayor’s Office of Bogota has not pronounced itself on the matter since, it has assured, it has not been notified of the ruling. Senator Andrea Padilla, one of the main voices in defense of animal rights, has spoken out to ask her colleagues to vote in favor of banning bullfights.
«We are going forward so that in Colombia the practices of torture and killing of bulls are definitively prohibited. Our bill still has two debates to go, we need all of you more than ever. All the people united, those of us who want peace for the animals», he expressed in his Twitter profile.
The Senate approved in mid-December the progressive prohibition of cruel entertainment practices with animals, pointing directly to bullfighting but leaving out other practices such as cockfighting.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
