The BNG extends its hand to Sánchez with the warning that it will not give him "a blank check"

The Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG) reaches out to Pedro Sánchez to support his investiture as Prime Minister, but it will not be in exchange for anything. The only elected deputy from the Galician nationalists, Néstor Rego, confirmed this Wednesday that they are “willing to talk” and, straight away, already issued a warning: “We will not give anyone a blank check”. Thus, they will facilitate the investiture in exchange for “place Galicia and the interests of Galicians in the debate.”

“If it depends on us, the right and the extreme right will not govern,” insisted Rego, who appeared with Senator Carme da Silva, recently elected to the Senate by regional designation, and also advanced that his intention is to prevent the PP from having ” control of the Table” of Congress in the constitutive session of August 17.

In his appearance, Da Silva explained that they will request “concrete commitments” and “with verifiable deadlines” from Sánchez during the negotiation that will be opened to facilitate the investiture, since they recalled that they facilitated the investiture of the PSOE leader in the last legislature and, once Once the mandate is over, there is a long list of non-compliances.

Facing this new negotiation, they will be “very demanding” when it comes to defending Galician interests. The main commitment that the PSOE wants to make involves “activating the Galician agenda” through four lines of work.

Its four axes will be: “compensate the historical deficit in investments”; promote social policies, especially in terms of equality and dependency; an emergency action to stop and alleviate the industrial crisis; and activate an environmental policy that avoids “energy looting”, to put an end to the current situation in which “Galicia is being used to extract resources but bearing high environmental costs and without compensation”.

Rego considers that the elections of July 23 have left a context of “increased weight and importance of the pro-sovereignty forces”, which will help “the national question to appear more clearly” and for the Government to move forward in the “real recognition of the plurinational character of the Spanish State”.

Thus, they ask for progress in the “practical recognition” that in the Spanish State there are nations such as Galicia that “must have recognized collective rights that should result in their capacity for self-government”, with which the development of all their potentialities will be possible.

The Galician nationalist deputy considers that Galicia “cannot be a stone guest, you cannot talk about lace as nations of Euskal Herria and Catalonia and that Galicia is not present” and advances that the BNG is not going to allow that to happen, this community “cannot miss, once again, that train.

regional financing

For the BNG, the question of financing will be fundamental, which already motivated initiatives and political action of the nationalist organization in the last legislature, since Rego defended the need to change the current financing system that “seriously harms” Galicia and represents a ” underfinancing” which has a negative impact on many aspects, especially public services such as health or education.

The deputy also made reference to the possibility of writing off or canceling the public debt with the Autonomous Liquidity Fund (FLA) that recently came to the fore, and stressed that the Galician government of the PP refused to resort to this fund “for preferring that the public debt was with private banks, tripling it to almost 12,000 million euros”.

Now that the possibility of removing the debt with the FLA is open, Rego recalls that Galicia will be harmed by the political choice of borrowing from private entities that the PP adopted and that he will have to explain to the citizenry as a whole.