Thursday, November 24, Aymeric Caron withdrew his bill to abolish bullfighting in France after denouncing “obstruction” against his text. The LFI deputy announced that he wanted to table a “transpartisan law”.
[Mis à jour le 25 novembre 2022 à 17h09] Thursday, November 24, the deputy La France insoumise, Aymeric Caron, finally announced the withdrawal of his bill which aimed to ban bullfighting in France. It was to be debated at the Palais Bourbon on the occasion of the parliamentary niche of the LFI group. He justified this abandonment by the hundreds of “obstruction” amendments, making “impossible a final vote within the time limit, that is to say midnight”. The LFI deputy claimed to have been “forced to withdraw this text”. Nevertheless, Aymeric Caron made a promise: “What is happening today is not an end, it is only a beginning. With my colleagues from La France insoumise, I will table a new bill, a transpartisan law that will be included in our debates as part of a week of the Assembly.” The deputy invited “all his colleagues, from all groups” to work “together” to have “a collective victory”. “Bullfighting will soon be abolished in this country. I promise! We promise!”
In a press release published on Friday 25 November, Aymeric Caron returned to this abandonment of the bill: “By tabling nearly 500 eccentric amendments, such as the one asking that a painkiller be administered to the bull, or this other prohibiting bullfights in too strong a wind, a few MPs (e)s pro-bullfights, knowingly hindered the possibility of a conclusion of the examination of the proposal in time”, he regretted. “I am not giving up, so that abolition is put to the vote very quickly in the Assembly under serious conditions”, assured the deputy on Twitter. However, no date has yet been announced.
This is not the first time that Aymeric Caron’s projects have been hampered. On November 16, 2022, deputies met in committee and spoke out against the ban on bullfighting, rejecting the bill for the first time, recalls France info. With this text, the deputy wanted to modify the Penal Code. Indeed, this punishes animal mistreatment, but the sanctions do not apply: “to bullfights when an uninterrupted local tradition can be invoked” (article 521-1).