The national spokesperson of the BNG, Ana Pontón, has reiterated that the leader of the PP and former president of the Xunta, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, "left a worse Galicia" and that Galician citizens "know of his legacy of cuts and privatizations". "We are going to stop it," she emphasized.
As the BNG conveyed in a press release, the nationalist leader has urged to "fill the ballot boxes with the BNG ballot" in order to "make oneself heard in Madrid" and "stop Feijóo", who, in her view, is now "selling the big talk of a great manager" despite having "left a worse Galicia".
"In Galicia we know very well his legacy of cuts, privatizations and business dealings for PP-friendly companies. We know about his management disaster, because he cut back on health, liquidated public housing, and tripled the debt. He left a worse Galicia and that is why we are going to stop it at the ballot box by concentrating all the Galician vote in the BNG," she said at a rally held in Viveiro.
Ana Pontón has mocked that Feijóo's "great management" also involved "doing away with the A Mariña health area"; taking on an additional cost of 480 million euros for the Vigo hospital or, in terms of housing, delivering "only 15 rental apartments" and working "for thirteen years for the speculators".
Next, she added that the "great manager" is the one of the "eolic plunder"; the one of the "environmental bomb of Altri" and the one who "governed for the electricity lobby and PP-friendly companies". Likewise, she criticized that he "boasts of being a feminist" when in Galicia "he cut aid to victims of male-chauvinist violence, abolished equality services, and funded an ultra anti-abortion network with resources".
Along these lines, Pontón censured that the PP leader comes to Galicia only to do "electoral tourism". "How many times did he talk about Galicia in the Cortes? None. And Tellado? None," the nationalist said, regretting that the "most talked-about" intervention by one of the PP deputies from Galicia has been Ana Vázquez's and "her peppery gas".
Against this backdrop, the national spokesperson of the Bloc has stressed the need to concentrate the vote in her party in order to stop, at the ballot box, the arrival in power of the "most ultra right" and "turn around pre-cooked opinion polls that want to convince people that the story is already written" and in which "Galicia's dignity has no place".
For Ana Pontón, supporting the BNG means "slowing down the regression of the right and ensuring that Galicia has more political weight" within the State, in order to provide answers to the problems of the country and its population. In this sense, she has argued that the energy produced in Galicia should be used to generate wealth in the territory, the importance of continuing to block projects that she considers destructive, and the demand for a commuter rail train.
On the national level, the nationalist has also criticized that the Government that "proclaimed itself the most progressive in history" has doubled military spending, which already stands at 35,000 million euros, while it only plans to allocate 840 million euros this year to housing policies. "Every euro that is allocated to tanks is a euro that will not improve public healthcare, housing, or pensions," she denounced.
In addition, she has pointed out that all of the communities within the State have lost weight in the overall pool of state wealth, except Madrid, as a result of "a centralist design that is becoming increasingly more acute." "It’s not because people in Madrid are smarter or do things better," she said, adding an irony about what would happen if Galicia stopped "sending fish or disconnecting the electricity."
MOBILIZATIONS OF 11-N
During her appearance before the media, the nationalist highlighted that the Galician people have just shown, with the mobilizations of 11-N, that "it is not silent or submissive" and that "when it unites to defend its own, they are capable of achieving great things."
In connection with this, she referred to the PP’s statements about the unions and organizations that promoted the protests of 11-N. "Is the PP there to talk about mafia and trash? Trash is the PP’s policies, which in Galicia has spent 17 years defending speculation and causing thousands of people in this country to be unable to have the right to live decently," she concluded.