Galician National-Popular Bloc

Galician National-Popular Bloc Bloque Nacional-Popular Galego
Leader	Lois Diéguez Bautista Álvarez
Founded	1977
Dissolved	1982
Merger of	UPG and the AN-PG
Succeeded by	Galician Nationalist Bloc
Student wing	Galician Revolutionary Students
Ideology	Galician nationalism Revolutionary Socialism Sovereignism[1] Left-wing nationalism
Union affiliation	INTG
Parliament of Galicia (1981–1982)	2 / 71 [2]
Town councillors (1979–1982)	258 / 4,069 [3]
Politics of Galicia Political parties

BN-PG sticker against the 1978 Spanish Constitution, supporting NO in the Spanish constitutional referendum of 1978. It says: Against the Spanish and colonial Constitution a Galician and popular NO

The Galician National-Popular Bloc (BNPG or BN-PG, Bloque Nacional-Popular Galego in Galician language) was a Galician electoral candidacy. It had as the national sovereignty for Galiza as its main objective and as an alternative to autonomism. It was formed by the Galician People's Union (UPG) and Galician National-Popular Assembly (ANPG).

History

The candidacy was boosted by the UPG and was created as a group of voters to stand in the general election of 1977, since both the UPG and the AN-PG were not legal. In these elections the BN-PG obtained 22,771 votes, 2.02% of the votes in Galiza. The candidacy, already as a coalition, repeated in the general election of 1979, in which obtained 60,889 votes and the 5.95% of the votes in Galiza. In neither of the two elections the BN-PG won any parliamentary representation. In the municipal elections of 1979 it reached its electoral ceiling, obtaining the 7.1% of the Galician vote and gained representation in a lot of Galician municipalities (including five of the seven major municipalities in Galiza), with a total of 253 town councillors.

The BN-PG called to vote "no" for both the Spanish Constitution of 1978 and the Statute of Autonomy of Galicia.

In the Galician parliamentary elections of 1981 the BN-PG presented a joint list with the Galician Socialist Party (PSG). The coalition won 61,870 votes (6.15%), which resulted in 3 seats (1 for A Coruña, another Lugo and another one for Pontevedra). Two corresponded to BNPG and the remaining one for the PSG.^[4]

In 1982 the BN-PG became the Galician Nationalist Bloc.

Electoral results

Electoral results of the BN-PG
Election	Candidate	Votes	%	Seats
Spanish general election, 1977		22,771	2.02%[5]	0
Spanish general election, 1979		60,889	5.95%[6]	0
Spanish municipal elections, 1979		78,216	7.32%[7]	258
Galician parliamentary election, 1981	Bautista Álvarez	61,870	6.27%	3[8]
Spanish general election, 1982		38,437	2.97%[9]	0

References

1. http://elpais.com/diario/1979/02/18/espana/288140403_850215.html
2. Elected in the BN-PG-PSG list. Expelled from the parliament for not swearing the constitution.
3. Detailed results.
4. http://web.archive.org/web/20090724095044/http://es.geocities.com/carlestek/agalicia.html
5. In Galiza.
6. In Galiza.
7. In Galiza. Detailed results.
8. 2 of the BN-PG itself and 1 for the Galician Socialist Party. Expelled from the parliament for refusing to swear the Spanish Constitution.
9. In Galiza.

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