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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Stephen Burgen in Barcelona

Spain’s conservative party fears defeat in its Galician heartland

Ana Pontón smiling with bottle of wine with label Pontón
Ana Pontón campaigning in Verin, Galicia on Wednesday. Photograph: Europa Press News/Getty Images

Spain’s opposition conservative party faces the prospect of defeat in its leader’s home region, where it has governed for much of the past four decades, when voters in Galicia go to the polls on Sunday.

The People’s party (PP) won an absolute majority four years ago under the then regional president, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who now leads the national party, but polls suggest its declining fortunes could open the door to a coalition of the Socialist party and the surging Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG).

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