2239|SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SITUATION OF GALICIA (VIII)

— Assessment of the general situation in Galicia and Spain. — Most important current problems for Galicia and Spain. — Type of news that follows with greater interest: local, regional or national. — Opinion on the degree to which the decisions of the central, regional government and its City Council affect him. — Opinion on the current situation in Galicia of: education, health, livestock, fisheries, industry, environment, road network, rail transport, agriculture and housing. Developments over the last four years on these issues. — Assessment of the Galician health system. — Most important problems in Galician public health. — Satisfaction with the existing healthcare in Galicia. — Opinion on the evolution of the Galician health situation since the transfer of powers, in 1991, to the regional government. Aspects in which it has improved or worsened. — Evaluation of the quality of teaching in Galician colleges/institutes and universities. — Assessment of the Xunta’s policy on education and fisheries. — Degree of agreement with the statement: ‘the fishing sector in Galicia has undergone, in recent years, a process of renewal and modernisation’. — Opinion on the future expectations of the fisheries sector in Galicia. — Main responsible for the problems of the Galician fishing and dairy sector. — Opinion on the evolution in recent years of the dairy sector. Aspects in which it has worsened or improved. — Opinion on who should pay the fines imposed by the European Union on overproduction of milk in Galicia. — Optimism regarding the future of the dairy sector in Galicia. — Assessment of the situation of the Galician economy. Comparison with the economic situation of the rest of Spain. — Evaluation of Galicia’s current and four-year retrospective political situation. — Degree of satisfaction with the functioning of the Autonomous Community of Galicia. — Personal preference for a greater degree of autonomy in Galicia. — Opinion on the treatment that the central government gives to Galicia compared to that it gives to other communities. — Assessment of the work carried out by the regional and central government, the regional parliament and that of the nation and by its City Council. — Degree of confidence in the president of the Xunta, Manuel Fraga. — Assessment of the management carried out in these last four years by the regional government. — Evaluation of the Autonomous Government: honesty, efficiency, capacity for dialogue and communication with the man on the street, efficiency, knowledge of problems and defense of Galician interests. — Approval of the policy carried out by the regional government. — Degree of closeness to different political parties. — Agreement with phrases on the decision to vote in regional elections. — Scale of political ideology of the interviewee. — Memory of voting in regional elections of 1993 and general elections of 1996. — Place of birth of the interviewee and his parents. Year in which he began to reside in Galicia if he was not born in Galicia. — Regionalist sentiment. — Scale of Galician nationalism. — Degree of knowledge of Galician.