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The bulls return to Mallorca with the Francoist anthem
  • Bullfights in the Balearic Islands, banned since 2017, have been reorganised last week, after the Constitutional Court annulled the law passed by the Balearic Parliament.
Iñaut Gonzalez de Matauko Rada @inautogdm 2019ko abuztuaren 12a

The Franco hymn "face to the sun" has been placed in the public address of the bullring in Mallorca after two years of prohibition of the runs. The people who protested the bullfights have seen everything and recorded it, and Unidas Podemos has announced that it is going to denounce it, claiming that it violates the law of Historical Memory.

Two years later, the bullfights have returned to the bullring in Mallorca. In 2017 the Balearic Parliament passed the law on the regulation of bullfighting and animal protection, which prohibited “the death of the bull for the spectacle”. The Constitutional Court has prohibited this law and the City of Mallorca has authorised bullfighting; the mayor of Mallorca, José Hila Vargas, is the one of the PSOE.

Silent event

However, the presence of the Franco hymn in an act that uses public resources has not attracted the attention of the main media of the Spanish State. Bullfights have been held this Friday and the media in Great Britain and Germany have spread the news, such as The Guardian, but media like ABC, El País or El Mundo have not spread it.