Ana Pontón’s BNG has turned around the political map of the Galician left in two electoral events and has established itself as a more viable alternative to the PP government in the Xunta, after obtaining 25 seats (six more than in the previous elections) cost especially of the PSOE, which it had already overtaken in 2020, and blocking the possibility of any other force contesting the space on the left of the socialists.

The feeling in the Bloc is that the change of government has not occurred due to the collapse of the socialist vote, since the formation led by Ana Pontón has improved its results spectacularly, especially if we consider that in 2016 it remained as the last force of the Galician parliament, with six seats, compared to the 14 obtained by En Marea, then the first force and today divided into three formations, and the same number from the PSOE, which was third on that occasion.

Ana Pontón, radiant with almost half a million votes and with a growth of more than 145,000 votes – more than double what PSOE, Sumar and Podemos together lost compared to previous elections, which represents a significant growth of the progressive space –, admitted that the objective, achieving the Xunta government, had not been achieved: “This result seems insufficient to us, because our objective was to open a new time in this country and give the Galicians a BNG government,” explained the leader of the Galician opposition, and in that sense, “I know that there are disappointed people.” However, in his opinion, “this result tells us that this country has already changed, that there is no going back and that there are thousands of Galicians who are not satisfied with the reality of this moment, who are not resigned to seeing how Galicia is going down,” said Pontón.

For this reason, the BNG candidate is convinced that “nothing ends today, on the contrary, we are stronger, with more energy and more prepared than ever to work positively for this country,” said Pontón. The leader of the BNG, who celebrated the rupture of “all the electoral ceilings of the BNG”, with 31.5% of the votes and becoming “an undisputed reference as an alternative to the PP”, narrated that she had congratulated the winning candidate, Alfonso Rueda , of the PP, while announcing a “constructive, positive” opposition. Pontón asked the PP to assume the “wake-up call,” she said, that “thousands of Galicians” have directed at her with their loss of votes.

After thanking militants and voters for the unprecedented support received in these elections, Pontón asked them to “keep the illusion intact, to keep the hope intact, that their trust will ensure that there is a strong alternative in parliament” during the next legislature. , which the candidate treated as a springboard to take over the Galician government. “Over the last eight years we have shown that this organization has no roof,” she stressed, “and we have to see how we are capable of continuing to broaden the base of the BNG.” This line of broadening the political organization is, in her opinion, the key to achieving an alternative government in Galicia, a task for which “I feel more strong, with more energy and with more desire than ever,” she said.

Pontón avoided evaluating the result of the transfer of votes from the PSG and from the rest of the leftist formations, “the reflections that other political forces have to make are those of those political forces,” and he limited himself to showing his pride in what He defined it as “a campaign” in which the Bloc has achieved “that many more people see us and listen to us.” In any case, the candidate concluded, “Galicia has already changed, this campaign has changed everything and nothing will be the same again.”