About 70,000 Galicians live in Catalonia, and 60,000 live in Barcelona. Although they are mostly registered in Catalan municipalities, the Catalan PP addresses them in this last week of the campaign so that they convey to their relatives in Galicia the need, indicates this party, to vote for the popular candidate, Alfonso Rueda, and thus prevent "the nationalism damages their land” as the independence movement “did in Catalonia.”
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The initiative is led by Daniel Sirera, president of the municipal group in the City Council, and a group of Galicians living in Barcelona who in a video address the voters of Galicia with this underlying message so that the process is "not repeated" in their country. land of origin. The popular Catalans also focus their criticism on Pedro Sánchez, accusing him of having no interest in the future of Galicia, and warning that the president's only objective is to give the presidency to the BNG.
With disparate polls regarding Alfonso Rueda's possibilities of regaining the absolute majority and, therefore, of being able to maintain the presidency of the Xunta, the PP of Barcelona also emphasizes the need to revalidate a government that provides “austerity, prudence and effectiveness.” A message of commitment to stability in line with the ideology that Rueda tries to convey. And in a context in which the debate on the Amnesty law overlaps with the Galician dispute.
These thousands of Galicians living in Catalonia and, especially in Barcelona, evidently have disparate political ideologies. But the PP understands that it is not only them, but also that among the thousands of descendants with ideological affinity they can help spread this message.
Combining interventions in Spanish and Galician – a language that Sirera also uses in the video – and with a moderate tone, the protagonists of this campaign underline the PP's commitment “to be Galician without disparaging Spanish.” The PP in Galicia wants to influence the need to maintain continuity in the Xunta, the idea of preserving the “island of stability”, as Rueda indicates, and it is this message that the popular Catalans influence.
