Finally, the Animal Welfare Act was approved. Congress has shed light on the norm, promoted by the Ministry of Social Rights under the leadership of Ione Bellara, and which has been opposed by two coalition government formations to protect hunting dogs.
Finally, the norm will continue to exclude animals used in hunting. “A dog is a dog no matter what it does; That’s why we don’t understand that the PSOE buys the speech of the right and has submitted an amendment to remove hunting dogs from this law”, explained the parliamentary representative of the confederal group in the Congress, Pablo Echenik, while processing the rule. . Nevertheless, and despite the fact that the text maintains this lack of protection, United We Can supported the clauses of the norm.
The confederation group, a proponent of the rule, stressed throughout the parliamentary process that despite this exclusion, the rule is “very important from the point of view of protection and the protection of animal rights.” The sources of this formation emphasize that the articles of the text fight against abandonment, establish the obligations that pet owners have and are ready to control livestock. In addition, they argue that the approval of the law will facilitate the supervision of cat colonies and determine the conditions under which the animal can participate in the pilgrimage.
Confederate Group MP Juan López de Urralde defended that this norm is “a first step”. “We’re going to keep moving forward and we’re going to keep demanding new animal rights,” he said on the floor of Congress this Thursday.
The text also provides for the creation of a positive list, or classification, that determines which species can be purchased as pets. The regulation does not specify which animals will be on this list. It only clarifies that dogs, cats and ferrets are considered pets. The development and publication of this paper will not take place immediately. The decree governing it has a long entry into force: two years to approve its draft regulation and another year to publish the first list.
At the moment, and in the absence of progress in the work on the list, there are “three fundamental prerequisites” – as explained to elDiario.es, Director General of Animal Rights Sergio G. Torres to include the species in this list. Positive list: that “it’s not a problem for biodiversity” or “public health” and that it doesn’t affect “citizen safety” either.
The preparation of the positive list led to a series of hoaxes and half-truths that spread on social networks, casual conversations and televised gatherings. (Fake) lists of banned animals are already circulating on the Internet. A context criticized by López de Urralde in his speech, who reproached the opposition for introducing scams “that change the content of the law” that “in the eyes of the public” is a norm “that makes no sense”. .
“Considering the jokes that have been made, there are only two questions left: either they are doing this because they have not read the law and the amendments, or they are deliberately lying with the intention of attacking this government.” This is how Socialist MP Gema Araujo addressed the opposition parties. On the other hand, the popular ones reprimanded the formation of Ines Arimada for one of its senators, which helped to save at least the norm in the upper house. “Your job, ladies and gentlemen citizens, is to save Sánchez,” Milagras Marcos reviewed.
Source: El Diario
