Animals to the circus, the ban is postponed again. But why?

The animals at the circus Italians don’t really want them. There is already a law of 2022 that establishes it. Yet our government does not want to make it usable and continues to postpone the moment in which, finally, Italy, like another fifty countries in the world, will be able to enjoy a circus show without performance and exploitation of animals.

The Council of Ministers has in fact proposed to Parliament an ad hoc bill for move from 18 August 2025 to 31 December 2026 the approval of the decree implementing the law already approvedwithout which the same law It remains unusable.

For the third time, therefore (the first date was February 18, 2023, then on August 18, 2024 then this year), the Meloni government blocks the implementing decree of the show code which had been definitively approved in July 2022 to replace the previous legislation of 2019. He does it after the Minister of Culture and Entertainment Alessandro Giuli had spent firsthand in the Question time to the Chamber by announcing the imminent implementation of the legislation only a few months ago.

The implementing code of the law of 2022 blocked for the third time

«Because, incredible, a new wash of hands. For the third time the Meloni government extended the suffering of the animals exploited in the circuses »denounces Gianluca Felicettipresident of Lav who only in April had produced and presented in cinemas The last show, the story of a liberation, Andrea Morabito’s film, which tells the long story that led to the definitive sentence for mistreatment of animals to the Circus Martin and its owners and the seizure of the animals they had exploited for years. Lav still underlines that only “two weeks ago Parliament had approved the new law Against animal abuse, making majority declare to parliamentarians who are now “subjects of law”. At the first opportunity to give concrete implementation to a law approved by Parliament, the government denies itself, disregarding the will expressed by the majority of Italian citizens and further extending the suffering of the over 2000 animals still forced to live in the circuses and to be used in humiliating shows “. An estimate that Lav had obtained through monitoring in the area, which also detected how Italian circuses hold a very large number of animals from species in the process of extinction such as elephants, tigers and lions, hippos, rhinoceros And others.

A circus without animals: hope for the future

A circus without animalswhich has already existed for years and successfully thanks to the ability to reinvent itself from some Italian and foreign realities, would thus welcome the requests of 240 thousand signatories of the Lav petition In this regard and and pronouncements of the National Federation of Veterinary Ordersof the regional councils of Lombardy and Lazio, of municipal councils such as Verona, Cagliari, Perugia, Rome who have still expressed themselves in recent weeks in favor of the disposal of the use of animals in the circuses. And not only that: he would also express the will of that 76% of Italians which, according to the 37th Italy of Eurispes Published in May 2025, he claims to be against the use of animals in circuses, just as 78.7% are said to be against vivisection, 68.3% to hunting, and 79.4% to the use of furs.