Galician Nationalist Bloc
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The Galician Nationalist Bloc is a political party and coalition from Galicia, formed through the alliance of a series of left-wing Galician nationalist parties. It is self-defined as a "patriotic fro
Xosé Manuel Beiras was the spokesperson of the front from 1985 to 2002. Between 1985 and 1989 he was also the only MP of the BNG in the parliament of Galicia.
Anxo Quintana speaking at the 2006 National Assembly
Congress of Deputies
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The Congress of Deputies is the lower house of the Cortes Generales, Spain's legislative branch, the upper house being the Senate. The Congress meets in the Palace of the Parliament in Madrid.
Galician Nationalist Bloc
…208,688 votes (11.37 per cent of the Galician vote, 0.8 of the Spanish total) in the 2004 Spanish general election, gaining two of the 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies. Results in the 2008 Spanish general election were slightly improved (+0.7% in Galicia), although resulting in the same number of seats. Results in…
Conmemoración del 40 Aniversario de la Constitución Española 05
Congreso de los Diputados (built 1850): Palacio de las Cortes. Seat of the Spanish Parliament in Madrid (2016)
The allegorical front of the building