2023-09-17 14:21:01
Pontón affirms that they will not give a “blank check” to Sánchez even if the Bloc rejects Feijoo’s investiture
17 sep 2023 . Updated at 2:21 p.m.
«Se [Pedro] Sánchez wants the Bloc’s vote, he has to win it by complying with Galicia.” there will be no “blank check” for the investiture of the socialist candidate, stated today Sunday Ana Pontonnational spokesperson for the BNG, after the meeting of the party’s executive, convened in Santiago to analyze the state political situation.
“With Galiza everything, with Galiza nothing,” Pontón insisted, referring to Sánchez and before reiterating that they will not support the investiture of Alberto Núñez FeijooPP candidate, because “in Galicia we are well aware of the disaster of their policies, which have left the country worse”.
Ana Pontón, national spokesperson of the BNG: “Sánchez is going to have to sweat in the shirt of Galicia to have our vote”
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However, the alternative government to the PP must take into account the “Galician agenda” if it wants to have the support of the BNG. The nationalist spokesperson attributed to her party the achievement of “historic milestones” such as the reduction of tolls on the AP-9, the dredging of the O Burgo estuary or the electrification of the line between Lugo and Ourense. Pontón compared these advances with the work of the other 23 Galician deputies who “follow or dictate from Madrid.” «The one who makes the difference in favor of this country is the BNG“, he claimed.
Pontón predicted further the change in Galicia, with an «unstoppable» block that« will lead the next government of the Xunta and defending the country without Madrid ties».
He also criticized the “servilism” of Alfonso Rueda, president of the Xunta, to Madrid. «Even votes against the use of Galician in the Congress», he reproaches Pontón, a hecho «so shameful that he doesn’t have any parangón» and which shows that he is a «peón of the stratexy of crispness that dictates Feijóo» and that «insists on denying that Galicia existswith its language, its culture and as a historical nation»
The Bloc spokesperson also presented a series of measures in response to the economic situation and the situation of families due to the rise in prices. He recalled that the Bloc has brought to Parliament the creation of “a 500-euro check for expenses on textbooks and school supplies,” and will propose the reactivation of the basic card or the creation of a “mortgage rescue fund covered by 75%.” “by banking” to benefit, with a cap on interest, those with incomes below the average salary (26,832 euros) “forced to allocate more than 30% of their income to pay a mortgage.”
Regarding the territorial debate, Pontón announced that the Bloc will ask for “the unblocking of the parliamentary financing commission”, to demand “all pending transfers” and to negotiate “a new political status of a nation for Galiciaso as not to be left behind while Euskadi and Catalonia advance”.
“When we talk about self-government, we talk about having the tools to give Galicians more well-being and that’s why the BNG wants to walk firmly in this direction», stressed the Bloc spokesperson.
Finally, he made reference to the recent Ecofin meeting in Santiago to warn that “the return to austerity is not the way” since, as it was demonstrated in 2008, it is a “failed recipe that will only bring more cuts, more social and territorial inequalities and that will compromise the response to the great challenges we face, such as the energy transition”.
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