The PSOE resumes contacts to close the Government in Navarra and rules out the support of UPN

The PSN has resumed today with Geroa Bai and Contigo-Zurekin (Podemos, IU and Batzarre) the negotiations for the formation of the new Government of Navarra after several days of hiatus due to the elections. On the table is one of the main obstacles that has marked the meetings so far: the weight of each of the formations in the future Executive. If Geroa Bai, the brand of the PNV in Navarra, demands the same positions as the last legislature, the Socialists are in favor of adjusting them to the electoral results, both on 28-M and 23-J. In both elections, Geroa Bai suffered a significant setback. The socialists, however, will need the abstention of Bildu while they have ruled out the support of UPN so as not to depend on the radical coalition.

The meeting is expected to remain focused on the programmatic agreement, since it will not only mark the axes of the Government's action but will also influence the weight of the different ministries and could review issues agreed upon in the last legislature that can be improved, all of which will in turn affect the structure of the Government, which must also take into account the weight that each party has been given by the ballot box.

In this regard, the general secretary of the PSN and candidate to renew the presidency of Navarra, María Chivite, has confirmed in statements to journalists that the three formations continue to “advance in the agreement” although “without any calendar” closed for the investiture, which has a deadline of August 28, because the “important thing” is to close the program well so that PSN, Geroa Bai and Contigo-Zurekin are “comfortable” with it and thus can “guarantee the stability of the Government “the next four years.

A government for whose program and structure it insists that its party will not speak with EH Bildu even if its abstention is essential to be invested and recalls that the Socialists “have been clear” on this matter, they want a government with Geroa Bai and Contigo-Zurekin and for this reason, he points out, “we are drawing up the government program with them and that is the line that we are going to follow”.

From Geroa Bai they point out that the negotiations are putting on the table many points of disagreement that the nationalist coalition does not want to ignore even if that takes more time, since it wants all the issues to be clear in the program whether there is understanding or not. And with respect to the distribution of positions in the future Executive, Geroa Bai comments that he defends revalidating the weight that he has had in the Government in the last legislature, while he wishes that the results of 23-J do not go beyond his scope and that the “polarization” that they have reflected “does not take its toll on Navarra”.

If in the regional elections on May 28, Geroa Bai dropped four points and went from nine to seven parliamentarians after leaving 16,441 votes, in the general elections last Sunday it dropped one point and stayed at 9,839 votes, in seventh place, surpassed by Vox.

The third partner of the Government, Contigo-Zurekin, considers that it is necessary “to resume with even more force, if possible, the process of forming a progressive government in Navarra”, its executive said in a statement, in which it stressed that this coalition “must play a relevant role, in accordance with the strength that the Navarre citizens gave it last May” and that “has been clearly reinforced” this 23J.

The other option, that of having the support of UPN, has been rejected this morning by the organization secretary of the Socialists, Ramón Alzórriz. UPN's offer involved giving stability to a government led by the PSOE in exchange for receiving it in the town halls and, in turn, bordering the radical coalition.

Alzórriz has pointed out, in statements to Cadena Ser collected by Europa Press, that UPN's approach is “political trilerism”, something that “the right usually has when the results are not good for them, because UPN are the same ones who have accused us to date of selling Navarra, those who applauded and validated when they shouted at us 'vote them Txapote', those who aspired to double the will of the Navarrese in an office in Madrid,” he denounced..