PACMA is a political party in Spain, founded in 2003, fighting the abuse and maltreatment of animals. This is a report on their website on a recent action against the Autonomous Government of the Canary Islands. (google translation)

‘Next March will be a year of delivery of a request to amend the Law 8/1991 on the Animal Protection Party Animalista – PACMA the Canary Islands Government and backed by 30,070 signatures collected throughout the archipelago.

In meetings so far with Canary Government, the Deputy Minister Doña Carmen Nieves Rodríguez Fraga expressed his excitement with the proposal, it considered necessary.

However, at the last meeting held on 18th February 2014, the Deputy Minister said the Animalista Party that the proposal may not be processed in this term because there are other important matters and also thirty outstanding, and that the approval rate is two per year. The estimate, therefore, is that in 15 years to consider amendment of the Law on Animal Protection Canarias .

Apart from the obvious joke that this represents to the citizens and this match is an unacceptable situation ninguneo on living animals . The Animalista Party exposed the meeting the extreme urgency of this legislative change, with documentation and pictures. ‘ve made ​​specific and detailed solutions, many at no financial cost .

Although the purpose of this meeting was to define the points most likely to be included in an early draft, we were heard only by the technician, who kindly noted, because a few minutes into the meeting the Deputy Minister is absent, without apology, not reappeared.

Despite this mockery, scorn the institutions before the drama of animals will never be a bar to the Animalista Party – PACMA continue fighting for their rights , soon from institutions.

We will exhaust all avenues to try modifying the Animal Protection Act canaria again.’

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