The re-election of María Chivite as president of Navarra is blocked and the countdown of the electoral repetition begins to accelerate. Geroa Bai -the nationalist coalition of which the PNV is a part- has rejected the last offer of the PSOE of Navarra that included the management of Health. A proposal communicated in two discreet meetings held this morning and that have once again shown the castling of the two partners. Geroa Bai has urged Chivite this afternoon to seek a government pact with Bildu if he does not want to govern with them.
The re-election of María Chivite is delayed despite the fact that the results of 28-M allowed her to reissue her agreement with Geroa Bai and Contigo Navarra (left-wing alliance with Podemos) and the parliamentary support of EH Bildu. The celebration of the 'Sanfermines', first, and the calling of the general elections on 23-J, later, delayed some contacts between PSN (11 deputies) with Geroa Bai (7) who came to demand a first “bilateral” negotiation that messed up the process.
Two months after the regional elections, Geroa Bai has confirmed today that the negotiations are still blocked because, according to his version, the Socialist Party of Navarra does not accept a distribution of power in the regional Executive similar to that of its first agreement in 2019, nor introduces mechanisms that guarantee a programmatic agreement that has not been closed. The representatives of Geroa Bai María Solana and Pablo Azcona have accused the PSN of “punishing” Geroa Bai in the negotiations with the presumed objective of preventing his presence in the next government of Navarra.
Solana has invited the PSN to “explore” a government pact with EH Bildu despite the fact that Chivite has maintained that he will not sit down to negotiate with Arnaldo Otegi's party. “Geroa Bai will not oppose it in any case”, insisted the representative of Geroa Bai. The nationalist coalition hardens its public criticism of the PSN after admitting that it has been offered to manage the Ministry of Health. Solana has warned that they have not been guaranteed “financial sufficiency” or “programmatic principles” to address structural changes in Navarre health.
Geroa Bai has also demanded that the PSOE clarify whether it is willing to negotiate with the president of UPN Javier Esparza a change in the direction of the vote of the only regionalist deputy in Congress. Solana and Azcona have insinuated that Esparza's recognition that Núñez Feijóo does not have support to be president could make it easier for UPN to end up voting for Sánchez. The UPN leader has maintained that his formation will always support an investiture of Feijóo before and after 23-J despite the electoral battle maintained by UPN and PP in the last two elections.