• Politics.Navarra Suma demands an "urgent meeting" of the Anti-Transfuge Pact so that Bildu does not take over the Estella mayor's office
  • Navarra.The PSOE is entrusted to Bildu to govern in Navarra

EH Bildu has a new mayor in Estella-Lizarra after the motion of censure against Gonzalo Fuentes was approved with the favorable votes of the abertzale coalition, Geroa Bai and two transferable councilors of the Socialist Party of Navarra. Fuentes, the most voted candidate in the 2019 municipal elections, did not attend the plenary following the criteria of the Government of Navarra that had urged that it not be held until the crisis due to the coronavirus pandemic ended.

Koldo Leoz (EH Bildu) is the new mayor of Estella after a censure motion approved by nine of the seventeen councilors of the Consistory after a plenary session to which the seven councilors of Navarra Suma (UPN, PP and C's electoral coalition) have not attended) , neither from the media nor from the public. A plenary session that had been opposed by the Territorial Cohesion Department of the Government of Navarra and also parties such as Navarra Suma and the PSN. Navarra Suma warned that the holding of this extraordinary plenary session is "a serious irresponsibility that supposes putting at risk the health of corporate and municipal employees and is a sign of social indiscipline on the part of those who must set an example."

The pact reached by EH Bildu and two of the three councilors elected on the PSN lists assumes that Leoz will hold the mayor's office until March 1, 2022 and then Jorge Crespo will be appointed mayor for the rest of the legislature. "Now all we have to do is get to work," Leoz said at the exit of the plenary session before the journalists concentrated abroad.

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