Proposing real alternatives to the problems of the populations, regional financing, investigating financial irregularities and ensuring compliance with the investiture agreement. These are some of the main lines of action that the Galician Nationalist Bloc will follow. this new political orientation, as its spokesperson, Ana Pontón, pointed out this Thursday after the first meeting of the nationalist executive. All this at a time when, with the budgets pending, they are considering “negotiating” to “advance” the Galician agenda.
In this political journey, as they have indicated, they will give priority to “denouncing” “nepotism in the management of public resources” which they accuse the Popular Party of “benefiting their direct relatives and related companies.” assuring that the list of “possible cases of corruption” is “long”. Another “key issue” for the coming months will be the “defense of a new financing model for Galicia”, which the BNG “will not allow” to be treated “as a second-class nation”. “We are going to demand exactly the same treatment as other historical nations”, defended Pontón against a PP of Rueda that “adheres to centralism” and “spreads the lie that Galicia is a poor country”. In short, they will demand “to have the key to the money” that belongs to the Galicians, “to be able to have more resources in health, education and improve care for the elderly”, among others.
For his party, he said, Defending the interests of Galicia also means defending “immediate respect for the investiture agreement” that they have with the Socialist Party, and they, he said, will go “further”. “We must take advantage of the opening of the debate on the State budget to put the Galician agenda on the table. This is the responsibility that we have in the BNG, because we are the only party that is going to condition its approval on the State’s respect for our country’s respect for the railway, the AP-9, and a fair ecological transition. Aspects with which they are going to “negotiate”, he assured, because the nationalists are “very clear”: “Either the State complies with Galicia, or, of course, the BNG is going to have a very critical position with these budgets”, “he said. his spokesperson.
