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Updated Wednesday, July 28, 2010 10:56 am TWN, Reuters |
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Spain's Catalonia region expected to ban bullfightsThe bill went to parliament after 180,000 Catalans signed a petition circulated by anti-bullfighting group Prou! In the final vote on Wednesday lawmakers of all stripes, from Socialists to conservatives from the nationalist CiU party, are expected to support a ban. Prou! has said that if successful in Catalonia, it will take its campaign to end bullfighting to other regions in Spain. “We understand it's a tradition but now is the time to rethink such a bloody act. There are other traditions we can hang on to,” Silvia Barquero, spokeswoman for the small anti-bullfighting party, or PACMA. | |||||||||||||