The BNG candidate in the elections to the Galician Parliament, Ana Ponton, does not rule out taking the PP campaign to justice in these elections that yesterday gave the absolute majority to its candidate Alfonso Rueda who will govern for four more years. Pontón has reproached the PP for playing the card of fear and she has considered it “intolerable” that she was accused, she has said, of being a terrorist.
This is how the leader of the Bloc expressed herself this Monday in an interview in La Ser in which she denounced that Rueda’s party “has played the fear card.” “In many cases it has crossed red lines of what we should accept in politics,” said Pontón, who has contrasted the attitude of the PP with that of the BNG. “We have done just the opposite, a respectful campaign from the point of view that we are going to contrast ideas, projects and alternatives,” he said.
Asked explicitly if she plans to take the PP to court, Pontón has acknowledged that she does not rule it out. “It seems intolerable to me that in an election we have to endure disqualifications of this type because they are accusing us of something very serious,” Pontón lamented, adding that his party is going to “study this entire campaign well because accusations of this kind cannot go unpunished.” type that exceed what is defensible in a campaign”. “In politics, not everything goes,” insisted the Bloc candidate, who insisted that “we are going to see some statements that have been made if they exceed what can be accepted in the political contest, I say this because accusing you of being a terrorist is very serious, something that we must not let pass.
During the campaign, the PP linked the BNG with Bildu and ETA and released an X video in which Ana Pontón’s face merged with that of Arnaldo Otegi.
Despite his spectacular result, after managing to rise from 19 to 25 seats, Pontón has once again repeated that it has been “insufficient”, but with the conviction that “the country has changed”, because there is a Galicia, he stated, “that “He is there, with desire, with enthusiasm.” For this reason, despite sharing the “disappointment”, he has delved into the fact that “there is a change of cycle in Galicia.”
“We have managed to mobilize many people who have not participated in other Galician elections,” he highlighted. In this sense, Pontón recalled how a long time ago “many opinion leaders said that the BNG was going to disappear” and instead it has managed to position itself as an alternative in eight years.
Likewise, Pontón has rejected that the Amnesty law that is being processed in Congress has had an influence on yesterday’s results. For the BNG leader, making “a state reading” of these results is a “mistake” since, in her opinion, “Galicians did not vote with amnesty in mind.”
Yesterday, Alfonso Rueda won 40 seats, two above the absolute majority, and the only party that put up a fight was the BNG, which went from 19 to 25 deputies, while the PSOE sank from the already dwindling 14 from 2020 to nine.
In this sense, the leader of the Block has not wanted to assess the poor results of the PSdeG, which have prevented it from gaining a sufficient majority to unseat the PP of the Xunta, and after admitting that she has not yet been able to speak with the socialist candidate, José Ramón Gómez Besteiro, despite having called him, has indicated that he does not dare to “make a reading that corresponds to the socialist party itself.”
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