Overview

• The PSdeG inaugurated its Diálogos con raíz series with the session A Galicia que arde, convening the discussion on September 27.
• Secretary-general José Ramón Gómez Besteiro argued the fires are not an unavoidable tradition but the result of political inaction, asserting that each burned hectare reflects the PP’s failures.
• Besteiro called for action across all seasons, more investment in prevention, stable contracts for forestry workers, and forests managed as living, productive landscapes.
• He accused the Galician government of offering empty announcements and improvised measures and of trying to turn the page each September instead of addressing root causes.
• He linked wildfire risk to rural decline, citing steep depopulation and loss of agrarian capacity in Ourense, as academics, firefighters, and agricultural leaders joined the panel before more than fifty attendees.