| Party | Popular vote | Seats | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | +/– | Seats | +/– | |||
| PPdeG People's Party of Galicia - Partido Popular de Galicia | 653,934 | 45.72 | 0.96 | 41 | 3 | ||
| PSdeG-PSOE Socialist Party of Galicia - Partido dos Socialistas de Galicia | 293.971 | 20.53 | 10.49 | 18 | 7 | ||
| AGE Galician Left Alternative - Alternativa Galega de Esquerda | 200,101 | 13.99 | 13.99 | 9 | 9 | ||
| BNG Galician Nationalist Bloc - Bloque Nacionalista Galego | 145,389 | 10.16 | 5.85 | 7 | 5 | ||
| Other parties | 137,090 | 0.96 | 0.33 | 0 |  | ||
| Blank votes | 38,410 | 2.69 | 1.03 | ||||
So the right wing Galician of shoot of the federal party Peoples Party PP, increased its majority and the left Galician wing of the federal Socialist P arty PSOE lost heavily.
The election saw The Galician Nationalist Bloc lose votes and seats, The BNG is a Bloc of various Parties mostly left
According to its former leader, Anxo Quintana, BNG is not an independentist party, yet some individuals and organizations within it may express a sympathy for the idea. in fact the Largest Party in the Bloc (UPG) supports independence since 2011
The BNG can be considered a nationalist, mildly pro-independence, left-wing and pro-European part who have not totally committed to Independence,
The Big winners in Galicia was the new party Galician Left Alternative - AAGE led by former BNG leader Xosé Manuel Beiras Beiras took part in the foundation of the BNG () as member of the National Directive Board. In 1985 he gained a seat at the Galician Parliament and gradually became the indisputable leader of Galician nationalism. Beiras took the party to its best results ever in 1997, receiving the support of almost 25 per cent of the electorate.
AEG is a coalition of Nationalist Parties like Beria's new left Galician nationalist party (Anova) and Spanish federalist United Left, Spanish Greens and other Parties .
Combined AGE and BNG together got 24,15% of the popular vote, which would have been a good result .
It seems all the Galician in the BNG and AEG are on the left are there are no centre or centre right parties of any significence like the largest Parties in the Basque county and Catalonia (EAJ-PNV and CiU ).
It could be that the right in Galicia like the right in Wales are largely Conservatives who are centralist and have no interest in promoting further Autonomy
The poltics of Galicia however seems to be to complex for someone Blogging from darkest Beddau, to predict how it will turn out.
P.S
It seems that 9 AGE members consist of 5 United Left members and 4 from Anova
2 comments:
You are right to flag up the absence of a centre/centre-right nationalist party in Galicia as part of the reason for the PP's relative strength. However part of the reason is that as far as I'm aware, the PP in Galicia tends to be rather more regionalist/ 'Galicianist' then its equivalents in Catalonia in the Basque Country.
Anon . You are probably right of course . But as the call grows in Catalonia in the Basque Country then I suspect they might become more nationalist rather than religionist.
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