The national spokesperson for the BNG, Ana Pontonpublished this Monday the traditional message to celebrate the arrival of 2026 and take stock of the remaining year, in which the main role was assumed by Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao, who was … He dedicated the year 2025 to him on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of his death. From the Café Moderno in Pontevedra, where the multifaceted politician and artist had multiple conversations, Pontón carried out a creativity exercise by imagining What would the Galicia that Castelao dreamed of look like today?.
“That would mean having a decent job that allows you to make ends meet and live in peace,” began the Bloc’s national spokesperson, denouncing the precarious situation young people suffer from, forcing many of them to emigrate outside Galicia. An inseparable factor of difficulty accessing housingan “upset” that Pontón “shares”, emphasizing that if some cannot pay, others “live in luxury penthouses paid for with black money” – in reference to Ayuso, although it could also refer to Santos Cerdán -.
Put yourself in the shoes of Castelao and his vision of Galiciathe nationalist spokesperson recommends “protecting public services”, avoiding waiting lists “even to see the family doctor” or that mental health does not depend on each person’s credit card. A Galicia which must also be “Understood”, with an education in which boys and girls with special needs receive the training they need.
Pontón also did not ignore what was his favorite slogan of 2025: “Altri non”. A request to which he also added Castelao despite the temporal distance, specifying that he also “I would be in the streets against the environmental bomb”, as a sign of “love” towards Galicia. “The lives of rural and seaside populations are worth more than the financial results of any company that contaminates our soil,” added the nationalist.
Without putting his words in Castelao’s mouth, Pontón assured that 2025 clearly shows that “feminism is more necessary than ever to combat gender-based violence”, urging us to fight against “glass ceilings” and “sticky measures” and to act so that “no complaint goes unpunished”.
Finally, the leader of the BNG wanted to justify her rejection of the “genocide in Gaza”, in the face of the “complicity” of the European Union, closing her message by alluding to the fact that, despite everything, “there are reasons to hope“. In this sense, he thanked the “dignity” of the Galicians who demonstrated this year in the streets for health, education or a dignified old age, “the dignity of a citizen who will not allow our language to be stolen from us, who will defend his territory after the wave of fires”, he added.
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