A sign of democratic maturity

The Catalan parliament's bullfighting ban is proof of the high level of democratic maturity the Spain of regions has attained, writes Lluís Bassets in his blog Del Alfiler al Elefante: "If this entire process has made something perfectly clear it's how well democracy functions in this Spain of autonomous regions, where the autonomous communities have sufficient competences and power of self-government to take a decision deemed to be of such great import by an important part of Spanish public opinion that some identify it with the rupture of Spain or an attack on its very essence. No one is stopping the advocates of bullfighting from launching a new initiative aimed at making the spectacle legal once more and trying to attain a new majority in their favour in the new parliament that next autumn's elections will produce."

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