The BNG national spokesperson, Ana Pontón, has urged concentrating the “dissenting” vote in the Bloc on 29N to “move forward on rights,” warning that “Galicia has a lot at stake” in the general elections.
At a rally held in Tomiño (Pontevedra), Pontón highlighted that the head of the ticket to the Congress for Pontevedra, Carme da Silva, “will be a magnificent MP, just as she was a magnificent senator and a magnificent councilor in Pontevedra.”
“We have to make ourselves count and precisely this is what we have at stake next 29 November, that Galicia be made to count in the State, that we are respected, that our problems have solutions and, for that, there is only one path: to concentrate all the Galician vote from the country and the dissenters in the BNG,” she underlined, calling for the critical electorate to rally around the nationalist candidacy.
Pontón defended that a single BNG MP in Congress has worked more for Galicia than the state forces and attributed the attacks against the Bloc, stemming from the general strike, to the nervousness of the PP, in which terms such as “garbage” were used. “I think garbage is the policies that play with people’s lives so that a minority gets rich while thousands of boys and girls have no future in this country, which is the policy that the Partido Popular and Mr. Feijóo carried out over these years,” she criticizes.
In the face of what she describes as the antisocial policies of Alberto Núñez Feijóo in Galicia, Pontón counterposed the proposal of the BNG. “What he did in 13 years was to triple public debt, cut back in healthcare, in education, in dependency, and leave the people of this country stranded by blowing up housing policy,” she states, accusing the former Galician president of degrading public services.
As an example, she said that Feijóo and the PP’s secretary general, Miguel Tellado, did not mention “not even once” Galicia in Congress. In addition, she interpreted the announcement of the abolition of the Ministry of Housing as a commitment to what she identifies as the defense of the right to speculation over the right to decent housing.
"Don’t be surprised if, in its demolition policy of housing policies, it ends up signing the CEO of that deep vulture called Blackstone, because the Partido Popular is closer to vulture funds than to the people who want to have a home, closer to speculators than to the youth who have the right to have a future and a house where they can make their dreams come true," he warns.
"If we want brave housing policies on next November 29, we have to concentrate the vote on the BNG, make this country assert itself and defend the rights of the people, of the social majority," he concludes, calling to turn support for the Bloque into a tool to strengthen social rights.
At the event, the mayor of Tomiño, Sandra González, also spoke, as well as Álvaro Lamas and Sabela Méndez, candidates for Pontevedra for the Congress and the Senate, respectively, who support the Bloque’s campaign in the province.