The militancy of Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG) renewed the leadership of Ana Ponton at the head of the nationalist formation, and strongly supported the strategy that he has maintained for eight years to broaden the socio-electoral base of the party, and thus erode the rocky power of the People’s Party in the community.
Pontón won with more than 84% of the votes and 16 of the 20 representatives of the executive who were elected in the XVIII Block Assembly –there are 21 members with the national spokesperson of the nationalist youth– held in Santiago, in which more than 2,500 people participated. “We must end the absolutist regime of the PP, We are the only real alternative to the PP in Galicia“, said.
In 2016, the year in which the current national spokesperson took charge of the formation, the autonomous parliamentary group of the BNG in the Parliament of Galicia was reduced to six deputies. Today, the Bloc is the second force in the regional Chamber, with an enormous distance from the PSOE: 25 seats to nine and almost 260,000 votes difference in the last regional elections last February, that is more than 17% of the voteswhich makes Pontón the central reference to challenge the Popular Party for hegemony in the Xunta.
“This objective requires a prior accumulation process: more organization, more social work, more municipal power… We have three years to achieve it,” he added, in reference to the regional elections scheduled for the winter of 2028.
Much of the growth that the BNG has experienced under the mandates of Ana Pontón is due to the redesign of the image, work structure and communication management that she and her team have built for the party, on the idea that it is the only formation that represents really to social majorities and feminist values; the only one that defends the interests of Galicia without ties, and the only one that appears as a real alternative to the two-party system, confronting the PP in Santiago and the PSOE in Madrid when it considers that those interests are in question.
That speech, which combines a declared sovereignist and left-wing DNA with the moderate and oscillating profile around the political center with which a majority percentage of Galician society identifies, has begun to permeate that arc of the electorate that encompasses from social democracy to conservative Galicianismand from which until now the PP has managed to obtain generous returns time and again in almost all electoral processes.
The figure of Pontón himself as leader of the opposition since 2020, in a role exercised with serenity and dialogue but firmly in the face of the steamroller of the absolute majorities of Feijóo, first and then Alfonso Ruedalater, has also been soaking the electorate, which places the national spokesperson of the Bloc as one of the best known and best valued policies of Galicia even among the supporters of the rest of the parties.
The leaders of the two alternative candidates that were presented to congress also entered the Pontón executive: the regional deputy Noa Presasfrom En Movemento, which obtained 12.3% support from the assembly and three members in the leadership, and the local spokesperson in Mos (Pontevedra), Gustavo Barciafrom the internal current Alicerce, who with 3.5% obtained his own seat.
During their speeches before the assembly and the debates of the presentations, closed to the public and the press, both advocated for cooperation and mutual support around the Bloc’s political project, according to several of those attending.
At the end of the congress, Pontón also called for unity to “make the dream come true” that the BNG will govern Galicia within three years: “This is a long-distance race. Changes sometimes take longer to arrive than expected. We would like to. But we are the hope of that social majority that dreams of a possible Galicia. “Let’s not set limits and Galicia will never have them.”
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