The Nationalist Group (CC-PNC) in the Arrecife City Council has lamented that "the capital Consistory is once again resorting to animal sacrifice in its facilities", as it considers has been demonstrated during the plenary session held this Monday, where the Modification of the Fiscal Ordinance Regulating the Fees of the Arrecife Animal Protection Center has been debated.
“If the ordinance is modified and, instead of using terms such as eliminating suffering or euthanasia, we go back to talking about sacrifice, we will be talking again about the municipal kennel and the expenses and absurdities that occurred in the past”, stressed the spokesperson for CC-PNC, Echedey Eugenio, who has criticized "the lack of sensitivity of a Consistory that intends to charge 20 euros for killing animals."
“We will present the corresponding allegations to this ordinance because it says very little about this government group that, even if it is a draft, includes the word sacrifice. There is no justification whatsoever”, he pointed out.
A "disastrous management"
The nationalist councilor has emphasized the "disastrous management" that the councilor responsible for the Area, Rosario González, is developing. “They fill their mouths talking about animal welfare, but they eliminate the animal unit, they have not provided a solution to the cat colonies that proliferate in the city nor have they made any plan for the castration of these animals. But yes, they bring an ordinance in which 20 euros are charged for killing an animal”, he stated.
And, the spokesperson for the Nationalist Group does not quite understand "how it is possible that, in the 21st century, there are administrations that continue with this type of policy, when there are autonomous communities such as Castilla León or Castilla la Mancha that have established their animal welfare law with zero sacrifice". “The only justification for a healthcare professional to help an animal die is because it is in pain, it is suffering..., but not here, here it costs 20 euros”, Eugenio insisted.
Likewise, and after asking that the ordinance be rectified, eliminating the word "sacrifice", the CC-PNC councilor has stated that, in addition, with the law in hand, the City Council cannot carry out this type of action. “It is a return to the past, the ordinance is born obsolete. From 2013 to today, governments have changed and the laws that guarantee zero sacrifice of animals by public administrations are strengthened. However, the councilor responsible for the Area in Arrecife has neither seen nor studied the laws that are in force nor has sensitivity to animal welfare”, he concluded.
