Galician Unity was a Galician nationalist

Galician nationalism

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 and social democratic

Social democracy

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 political coalition formed by the Galician Workers Party

Galician Workers Party

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, Galician Socialist Party, and Partido Galeguista

Partido Galeguista

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 in 1979.

The coalition aimed at promoting a degree of autonomy

Autonomy

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 and self-governance

Self-governance

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 of Galicia from Spain

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 equal to that of Catalonia

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 and the Basque Country

Basque Country (autonomous community)

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, other autonomous communities of Spain

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. The coalition also promoted the adoption of a statute of autonomy

Statute of Autonomy

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 for Galicia (like the 1978 Statute of Autonomy of the Basque Country

Statute of Autonomy of the Basque Country

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 and the 1979 Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia

Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia of 1979

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). This goal was achieved with the Galician Statute of Autonomy of 1981

Galician Statute of Autonomy of 1981

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.

The GU obtained votes in the 1979 Spanish general election

Spanish general election, 1979

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 but did not obtain parliamentary representation in the Cortes Generales

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. In the municipal elections of 1979, UG candidate Domingo Merino was elected mayor of A Coruña

A Coruña

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 and other GU candidates won several council seats.

Galician Unity was largely absorbed into the Bloque Nacionalista Galego

Bloque Nacionalista Galego

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in 1982.