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Spain's Catalonia region expected to ban bullfights

MADRID -- Catalonia could become the first mainland Spanish region to ban bullfighting in a local parliamentary vote on Wednesday that has pitted animal rights activists against fans of the centuries-old national symbol.

The 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.

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