(Animals) Congress passes regulations so that animals are "sentient beings" and not "things"

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The Congress of Deputies definitively approved this Thursday the new regulations by which animals will no longer be considered "real estate or things" to recognize their nature as "sentient beings" or endowed with sensitivity.

The plenary session gave the green light to the proposed Law of the PSOE and United We Can that provides for the modification of the Civil Code, the Mortgage Law and the Civil Procedure Law on the legal regime of animals so that they stop being treated as objects.

The initiative was ratified with the support of all parties except Vox, which voted against, and the PP, which was won.

The text includes the distribution of time and the burdens of pets in the event of family ruptures, whether they are marriages or common-law couples, and, if there is no agreement, it establishes that the final decision will be made by a judge.

Vox: "A nonsense"
The deputy of the socialist parliamentary group Sandra Guaita stressed that the text reflects "the fight against mistreatment and cruelty" in general, because "violence is related; those who are violent with animals are also violent with people" and we must defend "empathy and respect."

From Vox, the deputy Ángel López Maraver accused the Government of "advancing in nonsense and folly for humanizing the animal and dehumanizing man", with a "dangerous legal review" that "opens the doors to animalism."

The deputy of United Podemos Juan Antonio López de Uralde called this approach "troglodyte", assuring that it was "a good day for our country, where more than 200,000 pets are abandoned a year."

In addition, he recalled that "40% of Spanish households have pets, some 16 million dogs and cats," so the rule represents a "moral victory" when it comes to legally resolving situations such as divorces or separations, deaths and liens. .

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