Galician Unity ( gl, Unidade Galega; UG) was a

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and

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formed by the

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(PSG-EG) in 1991.

History

UG was founded as the successor of the PSG-EG in 1991. Despite this the PSG-EG would not fully disappear until 1993. The party presented a coalition with United Left (EU) for the Galician elections of 1993 and for the Spanish elections of the same year, failing to gain any seats in both. In fact, UG, lost the 2 MPs that the PSG-EG had in the

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between 1989 and 1993. UG got 74,605 votes (4.67%) in the

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and 44,902 votes (3.07%) in the Galician ones. After the election failure, UG joined the BNG in 1994.Unidade Galega aprueba integrarse en el BNG.
El País. EP 27 JUN 1994. On the 20 of September 2003 UG decided to disappear as a political party and became an "opinion current" inside the BNG.

References

* Beramendi, X.G. and Núñez Seixas, X.M. (1996): ''O nacionalismo galego''. A Nosa Terra, Vigo * Beramendi, X.G. (2007): ''De provincia a nación. Historia do galeguismo político''. Xerais, Vigo {{Galician nationalism , state=collapsed Defunct nationalist parties in Spain Defunct socialist parties in Galicia (Spain) Galician nationalist parties Left-wing nationalist parties Political parties established in 1991 1991 establishments in Spain Former member parties of the Galician Nationalist Bloc