Unión do Pobo Galego
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Galician People's Union
Unión do Pobo Galego |
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| Secretary-General | Néstor Rego |
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| Founded | November 1963 |
| Headquarters | Santiago de Compostela, Spain |
| Newspaper | Terra e tempo |
| Youth wing | Union of the Galician Youth |
| Ideology |
Marxism–Leninism Galician nationalism |
| Regional | Galician Nationalist Bloc |
| Colors | Red |
| Galician Parliament |
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The Galician People's Union (Galician: Unión do Pobo Galego) is a Galician nationalist and communist political party, and is one of the registered political parties of Spain.
It was founded in 1964 with the intention of the independence of Galicia and its transformation into a socialist state. It caused the creation of nationalist fronts such as the Galician National-Popular Assembly and the Bloque Nacionalista Galego. Since 1982 it is one of the parties in the coalition. The current National Spokesperson (Ana Pontón) of the BNG is a member of the UPG.
The party publishes the magazine Terra e Tempo, and the secretary general is Néstor Rego.
It celebrated its ninth national congress in January 2005 in Santiago de Compostela.
In November 1963, Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrín, Bautista Álvarez, Reimundo Patiño and Xosé Antonio Arjona, members of the literary group Brais Pinto, founded Unión do Pobo Galego as a communist and nationalist political party.
In 1964 the Youth Council, under the direction of Ramón Piñeiro, expelled the leftist sector, which proceeded to refound the UPG in Santiago de Compostela on July 25, 1964, integrating the Brais Pinto group, former militants of the Federation of the Galicianist Youth (as Celso Emilio Ferreiro) and the Communist Party of Spain (Luís Soto) and independent left nationalists, a total no more than 25 people. In the first two years the party activities are reduced to sporadic contacts of its members and the publication of the journal Terra e Tempo, in which its first program was published in 1965:
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