It was the year 2011 when the Popular Party of Mariano Rajoy promised, in its electoral program, to protect bullfighting as one of its great cultural measures. Two years later, Parliament gave the green light to a law that declared bullfighting as a “cultural heritage worthy of protection.” A few days ago, this rule made it easier for the Supreme Court, at the request of a bullfighting foundation, to force the current Government to include the bulls among the shows that should be subsidized by the youth cultural voucher of the Ministry directed by Miquel Iceta. The argument is that Culture did not sufficiently justify the exclusion of bulls from this subsidy for young people who turn 18 when there is a law that declares their cultural protection.
