Ana Pontón

Ana Belén Pontón Mondelo (born 27 July 1977)[1] is a Spanish politician for the Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG). She has served in the Parliament of Galicia since 2004, and in 2016 was the first woman to be elected spokesperson of the BNG. In 2020, with a record vote in the regional election, she became leader of the opposition to the region's People's Party government.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Pontón and the second or maternal family name is Mondelo.
Pontón speaking in Parliament in 2012

Biography

Pontón was born in the village of Chorrente near Sarria in the Province of Lugo, and grew up in a house that her great-grandfather had built in 1904.[2] She graduated in Political Sciences from the University of Santiago de Compostela.[3]

Pontón was first elected to the Parliament of Galicia in 2004.[4] In February 2016, she received 85% of the votes to be the party's national spokesperson, the first woman in the role.[5]

In the July 2020 Galician elections, the BNG's vote share under Pontón jumped from 8.3% to 23.7%, and its seats from six to a record 19. The result made the party the second largest in Parliament after the People's Party of regional president Alberto Núñez Feijóo, and Pontón became Leader of the Opposition.[6]

Personal life

In January 2020, Pontón gave birth to her first daughter in Santiago de Compostela.[7]

References
  1. "Quién es Ana Pontón, candidata por Bloque Nacionalista Galego (BNG) en las elecciones gallegas 2020" [Who is Ana Pontón, candidate for the Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG) in the 2020 Galician elections]. 20 minutos (in Portuguese). 8 July 2020. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
  2. Luaña, Susana (26 June 2020). "Ana Pontón se reivindica como una "rapaza de aldea" que quiere ser presidenta" [Ana Pontón vindicates herself as a "girl from the village" who wants to be president]. La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 March 2021.
  3. Gil, Iván (7 July 2020). "Del riesgo de desaparición a medirse con el PSdG: la revolución de Ana Pontón en el BNG" [From the risk of disappearance to sizing up to the PSdG: Ana Pontón's revolution in the BNG]. El Confidencial (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 March 2021.
  4. Carpio, José Ángel (25 June 2020). "Ana Pontón, la oportunidad de crecimiento para un nuevo BNG" [Ana Pontón, the opportunity of growth for a new BNG] (in Spanish). RTVE. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
  5. "Ana Pontón, elegida nueva portavoz nacional del BNG" [Ana Pontón, elected new BNG national spokesperson]. El Progreso (in Spanish). 28 February 2016. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
  6. Luaña, Susana (13 July 2020). "El BNG logra sus mejores resultados y se coloca como líder de la oposición" [The BNG achieves its greatest results and places itself as leader of the opposition]. La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 March 2021.
  7. "La portavoz nacional del BNG, Ana Pontón, da a luz a Icía, su primera hija" [The national spokesperson of the BNG, Ana Pontón, gives birth to Icía, her first daughter]. 20 minutos (in Spanish). 21 January 2020. Retrieved 1 March 2021.


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