Sergio Sayas (Buñuel, 1979) has requested his withdrawal from the UPN, the party from which he has been sanctioned with a two-and-a-half-year expulsion since the spring of 2022. Sayas's formal goodbye from UPN comes a day after he left confirmed that, together with Carlos García Adanero, also a deputy, he will support the PP of Navarra in the regional, municipal and general elections of 2023. "You have thrown me out of UPN because the PSOE demanded it of you," Sayas accuses Javier Esparza, the leader of UPN, in a harsh farewell letter that feeds the argument of the PP against its former ally, now its great rival in the Navarrese center right.
Sayas, deputy in Congress and councilor in Buñuel, leaves UPN.
And he does so in response to the request made by his party's guarantee committee after the meeting he held with Carlos García Adanero at the PP headquarters with Javier García and Amalia Salanueva.
The abandonment of Sayas feeds the hypothesis of an imminent integration into the PP of Navarra, an imminent integration into the PP of Navarra, an option that was not ruled out by either of the two deputies whom Esparza describes as "traitors" while the party of Feijóo pampers them as examples of his firm opposition to any pact with the PSOE.
Sayas, in fact, feeds the hypothesis that Esparza is seeking a pact with Sánchez after the agreement he reached with Minister Bolaños and Navarrese deputy Santos Cerdán on the eve of the vote on the labor reform in February 2020. "We bothered you in your new strategy of getting closer to Sánchez, which you agreed to at a
clandestine dinner with Bolaños and Cerdán
in Madrid, a few days before the labor reform," Sayas denounced in his farewell letter.
The UPN leadership ordered its two deputies -elected as members of the Navarra Suma coalition- to facilitate the vote and they hid their 'no' ballots until the last moment.
That vote caused the leadership of UPN to demand that they return their minutes of deputies and opened a disciplinary file that resulted in a two and a half year suspension from militancy.
Sayas and Adanero have remained in their posts and yesterday, after the meeting with the leadership of the PP of Navarra, they confirmed that they will continue in Congress "defending the principles" with which they presented themselves to the 2019 elections.
"I am very sorry that to please Sánchez you have been able to divide the party, to throw us out, to break unilaterally with the PP and with Ciudadanos and to break the unity of the center right in Navarra," Sayas accuses Esparza.
An interpretation that is part of the argument assumed by the PP of Navarra to question the political position of Esparza as an alternative to the socialist María Chivite.
The president of UPN has maintained his critical position against the Navarrese president for her alliance with EH Bildu and intends to repeat the comfortable electoral victory of 2019 when Navarra Suma (UPN, PP and C's) won 20 of the 50 seats in the Provincial Parliament against the 11 of the PSN.
Sayas charges in his goodbye with Esparza whom he blames for "personalistic desire and egocentric way" of managing UPN.
The Navarrese deputy competed with Esparza for the leadership of the regionalist party in June 2020. Esparza was supported by 58.2% of the militants and Sayas defended the ability to "debate and reflect" within UPN in addition to claiming unity after his defeat.
But in barely two years and with the vote on Sánchez's labor reform as the maximum expression of their rivalry, Sayas has come to the conclusion that UPN is now just Esparza's party.
"You have made UPN your party and your party is not very similar to the one I joined or the model I believe in," he states in his farewell letter.
Neither Sayas nor Adanero have yet clarified whether they will participate in any of the lists that the PPN will present in the May elections.
Both are comfortable in Congress but Feijóo's party needs them to counteract its territorial weakness in the foral community.
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