“In recent years, the City Hall, trying to hide its direct responsibility on this issue, has argued that bullfighting is a private activity in which he has no responsibility. But if so, why should the Tourism Council award a prize? Is it the City Hall’s job to award a person turned into a show for killing bulls?” Eguzki criticized.

Ecologists have also pointed out that 71% of Donostiarras consider that “the use of municipal facilities for bullfighting shows should not be allowed”, according to a survey carried out by the city council itself. “Who was representing the councilor in awarding the prize? Do the majority who do not want to mix San Sebastian with bullfighting or the minority who claim to enjoy bullfighting? In addition, as we have read the press in some chronicle, to round off the faena, Councilor Lage said the bullring is “the fundamental pillar of the cultural world,” adds Eguzki.

Thus, ecologists have asked Mayor Eneko Goia whether he agrees with the award of a torero prize and has said so, and have added that this is not the first time that the PSE-EE councillors have done the following: “The PSE-EE councillors have been giving prizes to the toreros for years, thinking that they are going to get some votes in that world. But they are on behalf of the City Hall of San Sebastian and the Donostiarras. And that's serious. This cannot be accepted in any case. As for bullfighting, they are represented by the PSE-EE councillors or, at most, by that of part Only. And if they still have doubts about the opinion of the Donostiarras, they just have to ask.”