The Galician People's Union is a Galicia

Galicia (Iberian peninsula)

Galicia is an autonomous community in northwest Spain, with the official status of a nationality of Spain.Its component provinces are A Coruña, Lugo, Ourense and Pontevedra. It is bordered by Portugal to the south, the Spanish autonomous communities of Castile and León and Asturias to the east,...

n nationalist and communist political party

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, and is one of the registered political parties of Spain

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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 Asemblea Nacional-Popular Galega and the Bloque Nacionalista Galego

Bloque Nacionalista Galego

The Galician Nationalist Bloc is a Galician nationalist coalition of political parties. It is self-defined as a "patriotic front".Formed in 1982, under the guidance of historical leader Xosé Manuel Beiras, the BNG advocates for further devolution of powers to the Parliament of Galicia and the...

. Since 1982 it is one of the parties in the coalition. The spokesperson for the BNG in the Spanish Congress of Deputies

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, Francisco Rodríguez

Francisco Rodriguez

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, is a member of this party.

The party publishes the magazine Terra e Tempo, and the party president is Bautista Goyel Álvarez Domínguez.

It celebrated its ninth national congress in January 2005 in Santiago de Compostela

Santiago de Compostela

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First foundation

In November, 1963, Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrín

Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrín

Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrín Galician writer and poet is widely considered the highest representative of contemporary Galician literature. Doctor in philology. Studied philosophy at the University of Santiago de Compostela and Romanic philology at the University of Madrid.He teaches literature at the...

, 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.