The demonstration, called by the associative platform "For a Galician Forest with a Future," made up of around sixty groups, including the environmental organizations Adega and Greenpeace; the CIG union; and numerous professional associations and cultural entities, included the leader of the Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG), Ana Pontón, and the mayor of Santiago de Compostela, Goretti Sanmartín (BNG).

Organizers have criticized the lack of resources to combat the flames that burned vast areas of forest and scrubland this summer, mainly in the province of Ourense.

A total of 143,000 hectares burned this summer in Galicia, according to central government estimates, a figure that the Xunta (Galicia Regional Government) reduced to 120,000 hectares. The protest organizers accused the president of the Xunta (National Council of the State), Alfonso Rueda, of the Galician People's Party (PPdG), of trying to minimize both the scale and environmental impact of the fires instead of adopting preventative measures and increasing resources and training for firefighters.

Rueda assured on September 1 that "more than 60% of the burned area consisted of scrubland and undergrowth," and that "a significant portion" of "stones, which also count on the surface," were counted.

Pontó, leader of the BNG (National National Party of Galicia), the main opposition party in Galicia, denounced Rueda's stance in statements to a group of journalists at the start of the protest in the Galician capital and reiterated his demand for the Galician leader's resignation.

Accompanied by the mayor of the Galician capital, also of the BNG, Pontón indicated that it was time to demand "political accountability," especially the "resignation of the person most responsible for this fire crisis, Mr. Rueda."