The King supports the bullfighting faction

Seville. March 2010.-Last March 26th King Don Juan Carlos delivered the 2009 University Awards and Bullfighting Trophies, granted by the Royal Arsenal of Knighthood of Seville. He has only been present at this event on two occasions in his 32 years of reign, and his presence this year ‘happens’ to coincide with the debate in the Parliament of Catalonia of the ILP to prohibit bullfights. To questions posed by journalists on whether his presence this year could be understood as showing support to the pro bullfighting lobby, his Majesty did not hesitate to answer ‘of course’. We learn from this, that the neutrality that one expects of him is not respected as it should be. Neither is the King demonstrating the responsibility that he has toward all Spanish people, it being well known that opinion polls clearly show that the majority of his subjects wish to see an end to bullfighting.(March, 2010)