Ciudad Real, Feb 7 (EFE) that would celebrate the hunting sector in Spain.
“The best thing that could happen is that the law falls”, and if this happens “we will all celebrate it”, Gallardo said in Ciudad Real, where he received a special mention from the national president of Asaja, Pedro Barato, for the defense he has made of the hunting sector and the rural environment
To questions from journalists, the president of the RFEC referred to the confrontation between PSOE and Podemos over this law, and to the discrepancies that Esquerra Republicana has also shown, which has announced that it will vote against if dogs are finally excluded from norm hunt.
In this sense, he has considered that “what is desirable for society is that the law be withdrawn”, because as he has indicated “it was born without consensus, without attending to the scientific community, without attending to any of the sectors involved in it, and therefore it is a law that was born failed, because social participation has been none.
He has also commented that “there is no law that has been approved without adequate social participation”, for which reason he has insisted on his assessment that “if the law falls, I think it would be the best thing that could happen”.
Likewise, he has indicated that in Spain there are 80 regulations on animal welfare, and that “without going any further, here, in Castilla-La Mancha there is an Animal Welfare Law, and in all the other autonomous communities there are”, and for Therefore, he has rejected “that hoax that is raised from Podemos that these animals are unprotected in Spain.”
“It is not true, you just have to read article 3.37 of the Penal Code” which establishes that “if you kill an animal you go to jail”, argued the president of the Spanish Hunting Federation, who has opined that “there is time to draft a homogeneous law, taking into account that the harmonization of the rules has to be done through the Constitution”.
Regarding the mention that he has received from Asaja, Gallardo has indicated that it is a recognition of the hunting sector and the regional federations, and of the work that has been done to try to communicate everything that the hunting sector contributes to the rural world.
In this context, he has reflected on the global problem that “animalism” represents for society, and has predicted that “if it goes ahead, it will not only end hunting activity, but it will end livestock farming and a way of life, by implanting a new social model with which we do not agree.
For his part, Cheap, has highlighted Gallardo’s work at the head of the Royal Spanish Hunting Federation defending the hunting sector.