Pamplona (EFE).- PSN and Geroa Bai have held a meeting this Monday in the Parliament of Navarra in which the formation led by Uxue Barkos has demanded that the Socialists maintain their current institutional representation.
This was a fundamental claim for the coalition led by Uxue Barkos, which had led it not to attend the last two meetings with the PSN and Contigo Zurekin, the latter formation that had agreed to a bilateral meeting of the socialists with Geroa Bai to unblock the negotiation.
The Geroa Bai parliamentarian, Pablo Azcona, indicated after the meeting that, pending a response from the PSN to his request, they will participate in the “three-way” meetings with the Socialists and Contigo Zurekin to advance the programmatic agreement.
In this way, this Monday afternoon the PSN, Geroa Bai and Contigo Zurekin will once again hold a meeting to negotiate the programmatic contents of the future Government.
Geroa Bai: “It is important to maintain the institutional representation we have”
Pablo Azcona, from Geroa Bai, has commented to the media that for the coalition “it is important to maintain the institutional representation that we have at the moment” in the Government “to advance in matters that seem important to us and that we will have to advance in the next legislature”.
In addition, he said, at the meeting they have transferred to the PSN “the need to improve, to give more guarantees to the control bodies of the programmatic agreement and operation of the Government of Navarra” so that they “are a guarantee of consensus decisions in the set of political forces that should make up that future government”.
They have also demanded from the Socialists that the leadership of these negotiations be from the general secretary of the PSN and candidate for the presidency, María Chivite. “We vindicate the personal commitment of the president of the Government of Navarra with the agreements that we are reaching”, she indicated.
Geroa Bai does not rule out new bilateral meetings
Although he has not ruled out that there will be new bilateral meetings, Azcona has pointed out that it is necessary to continue advancing in the programmatic contents while they wait “for the PSN to make it clear to Geroa Bai what the structure” of the future government is, “if it already has it in mind ”.
Both aspects, the definition of the government structure and the programmatic agreement, he has considered, must be negotiated “on par”.
Azcona has also opined that it is “evident” that in this negotiation the PSN has a “national condition” for the elections on July 23. “President Chivite said it last week,” she assured.
Solana: “Let no one believe that the president is going to impose anything on anyone”
For her part, the parliamentarian María Solana has valued the meeting “the fact that there has even been a point of self-criticism on the part of the PSN, assuming that the control mechanisms that had been foreseen and signed in the programmatic agreement of 2019”.
These control tools, he added, “we are going to refine them even more if possible, because for us they are essential. A coalition government requires this type of mechanism and this type of guarantee”.
Solana has affirmed that this tool “has not worked” and “that has caused us to distance ourselves between partners and that there have been obstacles that could not be overcome”, in addition to “loss of consensus and conflicting positions”.
He has highlighted the importance of the PSN presenting a proposal for an organic structure for the Government, so that “nobody believes that the president, or whoever claims to be, is going to impose anything on anyone and give us a government scheme that we don’t think is the same.” reasonable”.
The PSN wants to negotiate content first and then the governance structure
The socialist spokesman, Ramón Alzórriz, stressed that “it has been a positive meeting, which unlocks the next tripartite meeting that we are going to have this afternoon.” In it, he has said, they have transferred to Geroa Bai the assessment that PSN and Contigo Zurekin make of the aspects that have not been fulfilled in the previous programmatic agreement.
He has recognized that at the beginning of the legislature “we followed up well” on the agreement, but “later on it fell, also due to the circumstances” of the pandemic and the war, “and perhaps that has also influenced the future of that commission of follow-up”.
On the demand that the government structure be defined, he has argued that “first we have to agree on the content, on the programmatic agreement, and then see who manages each area” of the Executive. “We have already said that we are not going to chop up the negotiation,” she insisted.
The citizens of Navarra “has given each of us a representation within that coalition government”, stated Alzórriz, who has asserted that “it is not intended to humiliate or weaken anyone, but rather to meet the requirements that it has made of us Navarre citizenship.
“When you want to negotiate and agree, you cannot enter with red lines or vetoes,” he stressed.
Alzórriz: The PSN has “no order from Madrid”
He has not shared the demand that President Chivite continue to lead the negotiations. “Each political party decides who has to negotiate and lead those negotiations”, he pointed out, to underline that “María Chivite has given me the leadership of the negotiations” and “I do not tell them who has to come to them”.
Alzórriz has affirmed that there is no term to reach an agreement, although “the sooner it arrives, the better”, but according to what he has said, all parties must give in and the agreement must be “in three”.
He has also denied that the Navarrese socialists have “any order from Madrid” to reach an agreement after 23J. “We do not want to delay anything, we want to reach agreements,” he declared.
The PSN spokesman has also censured the criticism of the UPN president, Javier Esparza, of this negotiation: “What he is trying to do is maneuver so as not to fall into indifference within his own party.”
“There are people in his party, such as the mayor of Tudela, who has achieved an absolute majority; Javier Esparza is not going to be president of Navarra and that could shake his position within UPN”, he concluded.