The Catalonia Regional Parliament today took a major step towards outlawing the tradition.
It voted by 67 votes to 59 (with five abstentions) to draw up a law calling for fighting bulls to be protected in the same way as other animals.
The proposal, which will be voted on in April, is expected to be passed as a majority of deputies in the regional parliament are thought to favour a ban.
Catalonia, whose capital Barcelona has a 19,500 seat bullring, is the second most populated region of Spain with 7.5 million inhabitants.
In 2008, 12 bullfights took place in the province, all of them in Barcelona's Plaza de Toros Monumental.
The Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago off the coast of west Africa, banned bullfighting in 1991.
More details in the Mail Online
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