The Cainite war on the right of Navarre gives air to Otegi and Sánchez

UNDER REGISTRATION

• JOSEAN IZARRA

  @josean_izarra

  Pamplona

Updated Friday,26May2023-08:39

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Next to the monument of the Fueros, at the end of the Paseo de Sarasate and sticking to one of the entrances to the Plaza del Castillo, Ana Mari, a retired State official, hoped last Wednesday that Javier Esparza Abaurrea (Pamplona, 1970) would transmit tranquility. Ana Mari, like almost 128,000 Navarrese, voted for Navarra Suma four years ago but after the rupture of the Navarrese center-right coalition the worst is feared. And the worst, for Ana Mari, is called Pedro Sánchez and María Chivite. Esparza,

The leader of

Union of the Navarrese People

, tried to calm his supporters by assuring him that only by voting for his party next Sunday can a new pact between the

PSOE

and

Bildu

in

. "Either UPN governs or the PSOE and Bildu will do it," Esparza insisted while his team demanded him to continue the campaign. But the

confrontation

between the management of

Feijoo

and the regionalist leader since August 2022 plus the cordial entente forged during the last four years between socialists and

They predict a new pact for María Chivite to be president under the baton of

Arnaldo Otegi

.

"Chivite wants you to vote for the

PP

and not UPN, ask why. Bildu wants you to vote for the PP and not UPN, ask yourself why, "warned the penultimate attempt of Esparza's communication team to attract all the 127,346 voters who in 2019 gave Navarra Suma a comfortable victory in the regional elections with 20 of the 50 representatives of the provincial Parliament. A hard video of just 30 seconds launched from UPN in the final sprint of a Cainite electoral campaign that goes far beyond what is happening in the surroundings of the Plaza del Castillo, the social and political center of Pamplona where even the candidates wait for each other to launch their last messages of this campaign before the media.

Next Sunday the polls in Navarra will determine the battle between the two "blocks" configured since 2019 but can also break the leaderships in each of them. The so-called "government bloc" [built since 2019 since

in Madrid under the orders of the Navarrese deputy Santos Cerdán] is made up of the PSOE Navarro, a nationalist coalition with the

PNV

, several left-wing parties led by

Can

and EH Bildu, the most faithful ally in Madrid and Navarra of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez. Opposite, the former partners of Navarra Suma (UPN, Partido Popular and

Citizenry

) with

To:

aspiring to enter for the first time in the Parliament of Navarre in any electoral poll they reach the 26 parliamentarians who grant the majority in the Regional Chamber nor the 14 councilors who ensure the City Council of Pamplona, the two institutional jewels of Navarre.

"We aspire to govern alone in Navarre," Esparza repeats after leaving Ana Mari with her doubts who, in a gesture of sincerity, came to confess that a relative had already voted by mail with a ballot for UPN (Pamplona City Council) and another for the PP (Regional Parliament). The double ballot, abstention and, above all, the resignation of voters to another victory at the polls without a prize (UPN won in 2015 and 2019 but lost the presidency of Navarre on both occasions) loom like a bad shadow over the Navarrese regionalists.

Joseba Asiron, Basque teacher and candidate of Bildu in Pamplona.

EFE

How does Esparza aspire to be president of Navarre with 14 or, at most, 15 deputies out of 50? So far and in public, the leader of UPN assumes that Pedro Sánchez will not be able to reissue his pact with EH Bildu in Navarra just six months before the general elections in December. A hypothesis that discards his former colleagues, deputies in the

Congress

and already affiliated and candidates of the PP of Navarra

and

.

"Esparza does not understand that the PSOE now is only 'sanchismo', it is not the PSOE of 10 years ago. It seems that he has broken everything to get nothing because he has made it clear with whom he is going to agree and it will be with nationalism and with EH Bildu, "warned Sergio Sayas accompanying García Adanero and after waiting for the Podemos candidate

attend the media in the improvised

of the Plaza del Castillo.

Adanero -candidate of the PP to the City Council of the capital- and Sayas are part of the

designed by

and

to rebuild the PP in Navarre. But the harsh questioning of Esparza's leadership that Sayas and Adanero repeat in their public interventions shows a long-term strategy for the leadership of the center-right in Navarra. "Esparza has blurred UPN and Navarrese who for a long time have voted for that acronym have lost their confidence in the leader," says Sayas who together with the veteran Adanero rebelled in February 2022 against Esparza's decision to support Sánchez's labor reform after opening with

Felix Bolanos

and

A way of dialogue with which to counteract the

of the PSOE Navarro and EH Bildu. Two years and three months later, Adanero and Sayas reaffirm their decision to disobey Esparza and reject with a smile the label of 'fugitives'.

The breakdown of the center-right coalition penalizes

(UPN), multiplica las opciones de

pero ha abierto una

que corre como la pólvora por la terraza del centenario café de Iruña bajo los retratos de Asiron y de

, los candidatos de Otegi en Navarra. «Lo esencial es el programa; poner de acuerdo a todas las fuerzas progresistas; lo esencial es el acuerdo pero hay muchas variables posibles. Hubo elementos positivos pero al espacio que yo represento Asirón le echó del gobierno, se hizo una buena labor en lo social pero no supo gestionar la pluralidad de un acuerdo progresista», advierte, prudente,

. El candidato al Ayuntamiento de Pamplona de Contigo Navarra es uno de los artífices de una amplia coalición en el «espacio de la izquierda» en el que se integran Podemos,

,

y

. Entre líneas, Mauleón -que aspira a lograr hasta dos ediles- alimenta la estrategia del PSN de colocar a

como alcaldesa obligando a EH Bildu a apoyarla como ya hizo en Vitoria en 2015 la coalición de Arnaldo Otegi para desalojar a

Javier Maroto

(PP) de la Alcaldía.

Sergio Sayas, Amelia Salanueva, Javier García y Carlos Adanero.

A. P.

Why is Otegi going to 'give' the presidency of Navarra and even the City Council of Pamplona to Sánchez's PSOE? Asiron (who rejected an interview with this newspaper in the midst of controversy over the presence of ETA in the lists of Bildu) and Laura Aznal are two 'white' candidates, controlled by

, the last brand of the Abertzale left led by Arnaldo Otegi. Sources close to the EH Bildu coalition and candidates from other formations to the Pamplona City Council assume that Asiron will be

with the PSOE if it does not manage to be the most voted.

Open court cases

"Sortu needs to reinforce Pedro Sánchez to continue controlling the

; there are open legal cases or that can be opened and the attitude of the PSOE is clear now to turn the page, "they point out from the environment of EH Bildu. The nucleus closest to Arnaldo Otegi, in addition, recognized on May 16 that the resignation of 7 candidates with murders behind their backs was aimed at relieving the pressure suffered by Pedro Sánchez, especially from his own regional baronies.

"Bildu finds it easier to justify keeping Chivite and even

in Navarre because his nationalist rival -por

- is in decline. In addition, the bases of Bildu hate UPN and support any decision that leaves them out of the institutions, "point out the same sources. It is more complex for them to assess the cost that the presence of another 37 convicted of crimes related to terrorism may have for EH Bildu in Navarra, especially in areas such as the Ribera de Navarra.

There, in

, UPN and PP aspire to maintain the City Council of the second city of the regional community and city of services for dozens of Navarrese and Aragon towns. "Tudela has an exceptional location being located about 100 kilometers from

And we have strong social and economic ties with everyone. But here the Government of Chivite has not invested anything and we have the worst employment rates, income and the presence of people at risk of social exclusion is increasing, "he warns.

, the candidate for Mayor of Tudela of the Popular Party. Royo, municipal auditor in the consistory of Calahorra, has been responsible for Finance with the mayor

(UPN) and now both compete at the polls against the coalition of Izquierda-Unida and Batzarre and the PSOE.

Irene Royo claims for Tudela and its region the arrival of the Canal de Navarra, the infrastructure that should connect the Yesa reservoir with the Ribera along 198 kilometers. Twenty years after the company was launched

(60% of the central government and 40% of the regional government), the Canal has a hundred kilometers and there are still another 70 to irrigate the rich farmland of the Ribera tudelana.

A Ribera marked by small municipalities such as Cascante (4,000 inhabitants) where, on the eve of its patron saint festivities, Alejandro Toquero -mayor of Tudela- supported his partner and first local mayor

. "Tudela would be nothing without the towns of La Ribera and UPN has always defended its peoples. UPN is the only party that makes its decisions in Navarre, "Toquero and Añón underline before reconciling the campaign with local festivals in a Plaza de los Fueros prepared for the popular txistorrada.

THE POLITICAL KEYS

ESPARZA CARESSES ANOTHER EMPTY VICTORY IF SANCHEZ AGREES WITH BILDU

UPN caresses another victory in the Autonomous Community but Javier Esparza will only be president if Pedro Sánchez allows it.

DIVISION ON THE RIGHT

. Who broke the Navarra Suma coalition? In 2019, UPN, PP and Cs forged an alliance that achieved 20 parliamentarians, many more than the 11 obtained by Chivite's PSN. Esparza accuses Genoa of breaking the coalition and the PP, through Sayas and Adanero, points out to Esparza that he would have tried a failed rapprochement with the PSOE. Not even the entry of Vox (2) would allow the regionalist leader to add more than his adversaries. Unless Sánchez repudiates EH Bildu.

PAMPLONA, IN THE HANDS OF OTEGI

. The capital of Navarre has been during the legislature that ends next Sunday the counterweight of the Government of María Chivite (PSN). Mayor Enrique Maya has been replaced by Cristina Ibarrola and, as a UPN candidate, feels the encouragement of Joseba Asiron, one of Otegi's 'white' candidates in Navarra. Neither in Pamplona UPN and PP add up to reach the majority. The socialist Elma Sáiz assures that she will not support Asiron and will force a 'third way'.

THE PP AND BILDU, ON THE RISE

. Paradoxes of the fragmented Navarrese powder keg, both the PP and EH Bildu will be able to celebrate the results of 28-M, the starting point of another complex phase of negotiations. The PP recovers its acronym and the break with UPN has allowed it to sign those dissatisfied with Esparza. Bildu, even without achieving Pamplona, is consolidated as the third force in Navarre and will settle mayoralties such as

and