Pontón affirms that “big changes are not easy” and there is a “flow of hope”: “Today nothing ends”

The BNG candidate for President of the Xunta, Ana Pontón, has stated that “big changes are not easy” and has emphasized that there is “a wealth of hope”, which is why she has appealed to people who are “disappointed”, feeling that he said he shared, to send them a message: “Today nothing ends.” In her appearance before the media shortly before eleven at night, Pontón insisted that “a country does not transform from one day to the next”, certain that “this campaign changed everything” and that “the alternative to build a government at the service of citizens” is the BNG, so it has committed to continue working in this direction. “We are going to achieve it in the future,” proclaimed the nationalist leader, who had words of gratitude for her father and her mother Aurita at her appearance. Pontón has analyzed that the citizens decided that “there would be no political change” and has avoided evaluating the results of other political organizations, but he has observed that they have positioned the Bloc as the “alternative” to the PPdeG and have committed to continue ” “standing up” for the citizens. Pontón has assured that the BNG will continue working to “broaden” its bases and has stressed that these elections “changed everything” and “there is no turning back.” “We have to see how we are capable of continuing to expand the bases of the BNG and what we demonstrate is that the BNG has no ceiling and that line of continuing to expand is going to be key,” he stated after breaking all the statistics of Galician nationalism in his history and to seal the reconciliation of the sovereign space. “Here is the alternative that can give an alternative to this country and I feel more strong, with more energy and with more desire than ever,” Pontón emphasized, when asked if after achieving leadership around her without fissures will continue to fight until 2028, when it will be time for the next elections. “Today we once again exceed our electoral ceiling with a result that places us as the hope of all the people who think that Galicia deserves much more,” stressed Pontón, who has capitalized on the electoral support in 25 deputies, the same as in his day They brought the PSdeG of Emilio Pérez Touriño to the Presidency of the Xunta, with the support of the 13 achieved by the BNG. FIRST FORCE IN VIGO One of the results that the nationalist leader has highlighted has been that of Vigo, where the BNG, which was left out of the municipal corporation in 2015, has been placed ahead of Abel Caballero’s PSdeG and the PPdeG , with 56,820 votes, 37.02% of the total (13.69% more) and with almost 3,000 more votes than the popular ones. In Galicia as a whole, the BNG has achieved 466,943 votes, 31.57 percent of the total, an increase of almost eight points compared to 2020 and six more deputies than in the previous elections. The best result of the Bloc in seats had been the 19 of the BNG four years ago, although this historic night in nationalism has also pulverized the support achieved in 1997 by the historic Xosé Manuel Beiras, who had obtained 395,435 votes. And in a territory in which, according to the CIS, only around 20% declare themselves to have a nationalist tendency, Pontón has also managed to raise support for the BNG from 24% of the votes to 31.57%, a “widening of the base” that he has proposed to continue conquering, since another reading that he extracts from tonight is that his formation is the “alternative” to the PPdeG. Between 2016 and 2020, Pontón was able to reconstitute an organization bleeding from the inside by the 2012 splits, whose scars were definitively closed in January of this 2024, with the signing of an agreement with Anova, whose spokesperson is now Martiño Noriega and of which he also Beiras himself is a co-founder, who followed the election night with what is considered his “political son.” The nationalist leader rescued the BNG from that “precipice” – as some nationalist voices describe it – by renewing its faces and placing other women (at the time very young) such as Olalla Rodil and Noa Presas at the forefront of the candidates. number one for Lugo and Ourense, respectively. And also, as she herself said on occasions, knowing how to read and listen to citizens and learning from mistakes, a purpose that remains in force to achieve the objective not achieved on this election night. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Pontón began the appearance by thanking all the people who participated in the electoral campaign, thanks that he also wanted to convey to those present in the Nave de Vidán, who celebrated each new seat obtained by the BNG in the scrutiny with songs, although The night ended with a bittersweet taste because the objective of these elections, the political change in the reins of the Xunta, had not been achieved. However, Pontón rose to a height to dedicate a few words directly to him after his appearance before the media with the aim of inspiring hope and conveying that same message of moving forward, with the conviction that “big changes are not easy.” . “I know that at this moment many of the people who listen to me now may feel disappointed, I know it and I want to tell them that I understand them, because I know the enthusiasm and hope that thousands of Galicians placed in us to achieve change,” he stated, to to assure, immediately afterwards, that this campaign and this electoral result “demonstrate that this country has already changed, that there is no going back because there is an excited, rebellious citizenry that is not satisfied with the small Galicia that the PP leaves behind.”