Ideology
Historians, geographers and ethnologists recognize the existence of a Galician ethnic group, forming a singular unit in a specific territory. However, this is a wide conceptualization that in political terms allows many possible variants. Inside Galician nationalism two main ideological currents can be found:
- Autonomist: claims for an extended autonomy of Galicia, further devolution and (in occasions) the transformation of Spain into a federal state where Galicia would eventually achieve self determination.
- Pro-independence: campaigns for immediate and total independence from Spain. This is however supported by a minority of the population.
Both autonomists and independentists have points in common such as the defence and promotion of Galician culture and language, with some defending reintegrationism with Portuguese language and culture. Both also argue for the official and unequivocal recognition of Galicia as a nation and the defence of Galician speakers outside administrative Galician territory, namely in Galician speaking areas of the Spanish regions of Asturias and Castile and León.
It is often considered that the ideological framework of contemporary Galician nationalism was set in Castelao's key work Sempre en Galiza (lit. "Always in Galicia"), published in 1944.
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