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The Socialist Party of Navarre (PSN) led by Santos Cerdán yesterday represented its first gesture of distancing itself from EH Bildu, its most faithful ally in the regional community. It was an order in Pamplona but with the aim of Ferraz that the theatrical pulse with the abertzale left extends throughout Spain. Just one day after Pedro Sánchez announced the call for elections on July 23, the Socialist Party of Navarra accused Joseba Asiron of "imposing" Basque and ikurriña when he was mayor and pointed him out for street incidents against UPN officials such as the one suffered by Mayor Enrique Maya in a procession on July 7. San Fermín day.

The Socialist Party of Navarre, led by the deputy and secretary of Organization of the PSOE Santos Cerdán, unleashed yesterday against EH Bildu its first battery of disqualifications to justify that it will not vote for Joseba Asiron on June 17. The candidate for mayor and councilor-elect Elma Sáiz was in charge of activating the dialectical fire against Asiron just 24 hours after Pedro Sánchez announced the electoral advance to next July 23.

Sáiz supported, in an emergency appearance, in his electoral commitment not to vote as mayors neither Cristina Ibarrola (UPN) nor Joseba Asiron (EH Bildu) to open the announced 'third way', an imaginative proposal with which the PSOE intends to stage its distance from the Otegi coalition.

The PSN theoretically aspires to place Elma Sáiz as mayor of Pamplona despite the fact that she was the third candidate at the polls with 5 councilors compared to the 9 of Ibarrola and the 8 achieved by the list of Asiron. But Sáiz activated yesterday a "proposal" to add Geroa Bai (2 councilors) and Contigo Navarra (1 councilor).

"We are the alternative to the right and the independence movement," said Sáiz who "step by step" aspires to present himself with 8 supports on June 17. Insufficient to reach the majority (14) unless EH Bildu ends up ceding at least 6 of its 8 councilors. Saíz did not take into account that hours before the president of the PNV Andoni Ortuzar had announced that the two councilors of Geroa Bai – coalition of which the PNV is part – will support Asiron.

The proposal activated by the PSN received the immediate response of Joseba Asiron: "The third ways are not and will not be on the table." The candidate of EH Bildu, however, ignored the reasons given by the PSN to veto him as mayor of Pamplona. Because the socialist Elma Sáiz accused the teacher of the ikastola (concerted school in which only Basque is taught) of having practiced the "imposition" of Basque in kindergartens and in the municipal staff when he was mayor between 2015 and 2019. In addition, Sáiz based his refusal to support Asiron on the "imposition" of the ikurriña by placing it next to the flag of Navarra on the balcony of the Town Hall during the launch of the chupinazo on July 7.

As if that were not enough, Sáiz's barrage against his parliamentary partner in the Government of Navarra included splashing Asiron with the brawls committed by sympathizers of the Abertzale left in Curia Street during the last San Fermin and even the altercations in the eviction of a gaztetxe (space occupied by young people) in the Casco Viejo.

If Sáiz keeps his word and Asiron also does, on June 17 the plenary session of the Pamplona City Council will invest Cristina Ibarrola (UPN) as mayor, the candidate most voted by citizens. Until then, PSN and EH Bildu will stage an apparent political anger while the election of the president of Navarra is frozen.

At the polls, Javier Esparza (UPN) was the most voted and yesterday – in a carousel of high-voltage political appearances – he claimed his legitimacy to open the round of contacts with the rest of the parties. Esparza found that the final decision of the PSOE Navarre was adopted in Ferraz. "The campaign of the generals is going to go from this," he said in his appearance. And the "this" in Esparza's response is Pedro Sánchez's pacts with Bildu and its electoral cost throughout Spain. "There is a clamor in their own ranks [of the PSOE] that enough of agreements with Bildu," insisted Esparza who recalled the "indecency" of Otegi for placing 44 convicted of crimes linked to ETA as candidates on 28-M.

Esparza also demanded that Pedro Sánchez clarify before 23-J if he will agree again with Otegi as he did in 2019 that EH Bildu facilitate the investiture of María Chivite after the general elections.

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