There hasn't been a bullfight for the past three years. Last year, quite obviously, there wasn't one because of the health crisis. The fiestas in Muro, as everywhere else, were called off. Prior to 2020, the reason was the legal situation, the Balearic government having done its utmost to, firstly, try and ban bullfighting and then, because the government was aware that this would be quashed by the Constitutional Court, introduce legislation to make the holding of bullfights untenable.
That legislative tactic failed because the Constitutional Court ruled that provisions of the legislation, such as outlawing the killing of bulls, represented an invasion of state powers and, expressly, the protected status given to bullfighting by the Partido Popular government of Mariano Rajoy - there was a declaration that the bullfight was in the national cultural interest.
There are now just four municipalities in Mallorca where bullfights are staged; or have been in recent years. They are Alcudia, Inca, Palma and Muro. Felanitx has a bullring, which has been abandoned for years. In Inca, there has been a recent agreement for staging the bullfight during the summer fiestas.
The town hall administration, not favourable to bullfighting, can do very little about this; it doesn't own the bullring. In Muro, the situation is different. The town hall acquired the bullring some years ago, it having stated that Muro was (and is) a bullfighting municipality.
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It is not bullfighting when the bulls are drugged and their horns shaved. It is bull-baiting to be enjoyed only by sociopathic morons. Belongs to the eras of cock-fighting and bear baiting. Forgive then Lord for they know not what they do. I cannot however. Heartless cretins.