The result of the voting will be known on Wednesday. Catalonia, a wealthy northeast coastal region centered around Barcelona would become the first in mainland Spain to outlaw the tradition.
Tercio de Muerte (Death on the third phase)
Bullfighting fans and Spanish traditionalists see the act as an anti-Spanish rebuke.
Two dominant parties -- a
center-right Catalan nationalist coalition called Convergence and Union,
and the local branch of Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez
Zapatero's Socialists will vote for or against the tourist-magnet activity.
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Both parties are allowing their members to vote without any interference, that is, to not vote in consideration of their party affiliation, a break with
tradition due to the sensitiveness of the issue.
Anti-bullfighting protest.
The first Spanish
region to outlaw bullfighting was the Canary Islands, in 1991.
Josep Rull, a Convergence and
Union spokesman, predicted a close vote and victory for the
anti-bullfighting camp. Bullfighting would thus vanish from Catalonia
starting in 2012.
Rull denied the drive to
do away with bullfighting is anti-Spanish, insisting it is simply a case
of a society whose values have evolved and likening Catalonia's
possible move to Britain outlawing foxhunting with hounds in 2004.
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