Galician Nationalist Block (BNG). Political and organizational program
Cataloguing Data
Period / Epoch
September 1982
Original title
Bloque Nacionalista Galego (BNG). Programa político e organizativo
Category
Manifesto
Original language
Galician
Date
Sep 1982
Author(s)
Xosé Manoel Beiras Torrado, Bautista Goyel Álvarez Domínguez, Francisco Rodríguez Sánchez
Context
The evolution of events on the Spanish government’s political reform stage at the end of the seventies and beginning of the eighties put Galician nationalism in a hostile environment, principally in the sector where the main political objective was democratic break-up. Before this critical situation, came an initiative directed at building a new project with a common front character to adapt itself to the new socio-political context through the integration of nationalism into a sole organization. This proposal was confirmed by a constituent process, in which political parties, groups and individual people could participate, which ended in September 1982 with the foundational Assembly of the Galician Nationalist Bloc. This manifest was debated and approved at this Assembly which worked as the BNG’s basic statute until the middle of the nineties.
This document was condensed into the Galician Nationalist Bloc’s ideological, political and organisational principles. The structure and even the contents of the foundational manifest tell of the nature of the constituent process which results in the convergence of different political projects.
The manifest is made up by four parts, the first contextualizes the unitary alternative as a necessary and essential tool to achieve nationalist objectives; the second part strengthens the ideological-political principles that define the organization’s main foundations, not only operationally but strategically, together with the founders’ common principles, which at the same time, make up the organizational unit’s sustenance; the third sets out BNG’s immediate political objectives starting from the rejection of political reform started in 1975 and principally the Constitution and the autonomous framework. The last part of this document determines the basic organisational principles that will govern BNG’s operation, highlighting its assembly-type character and political pluralism.