The coalition aimed at promoting a degree of autonomy and self-governance of Galicia from Spain equal to that of Catalonia and the Basque Country, other autonomous communities of Spain.

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

[2] UG obtained more than 58,000 votes in the 1979 Spanish general election, but failed to gain any parliamentary representation in the Cortes Generales.

In the municipal elections of 1979, UG candidate Domingos Merino was elected mayor of A Coruña, the second largest city of Galicia.

Galician Unity was partially absorbed into the Bloque Nacionalista Galego in 1982.