Senate of Colombia in a historic act for the country prohibits Bullfighting in the national territory.
The Senate of Colombia approved the bill 085 of 2022, with which cruel entertainment practices with animals are progressively prohibited in Colombia, which includes bullfighting.
“What we have just achieved is historic, therefore, now we are going to defend the project in the fifth committee of the House of Representatives and then to the Plenary. We are sure that we will achieve it”said Andrea Padilla, a senator who led the project.
Something that should be highlighted is that the project was approved by very little, because at the time of starting the vote about 30 of the
80 senators present left the session, which is why Senate President Roy Barreras decided to give more time to get the votes and even had to threaten to call another in-person session on Friday, when several of the senators were already on vacation. scheduled.
This law that Colombia prohibits bullfighting It is a great step at the national level to eliminate practices that promote animal abuse.
The bill was approved thanks to the vote of senators from all parties, which includes the Conservative party, Cambio Radical, the Green bench and the Historical Pact, who described this fact as positive, the ban is proposed gradually and without touching For now, the cockfights.
