The Congress of Deputies approved this Tuesday, with the vote against the PP and Voxthe draft amendment of the Organic Law of Reintegration and Improvement of the Foral Regime of Navarre (Lorafna) which covers the transfer of exclusive traffic powers to the Foral Community. A reform which allows Shiite expulsion from the Civil Guard of Navarre roads.
In the absence of the vote, which was delayed until the last minute, all the groups that intervened in the plenary session of the Lower House supported the reform and the transfer, with the exception of the PP and Vox, which rejected it, arguing that they are the consequence of a Pact between the government and the PSOE with EH Bildu.
The debate was followed from the podium by the First Vice-President of the Government of Navarre, Felix Tabernawho considered the expected favorable vote as “very good news”, even if the negative positioning of the Popular Party will mean that it will then be rejected in the Senate, where it has an absolute majority, and will have to return to Congress for its final approval.
“For us it is very important, because it is the third reform of our Status, of the improvement of the jurisdiction that has been achieved over these 46 years,” he said after the debate.
The reform was defended from the stands by the Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torreswho stressed that the project is the result of a dialogue between the State and the Navarrese executives and that it is supported by the social majority of Navarre expressed in a parliamentary majority.
The spokesperson’s turn, the the socialist Adriana Maldonado He said that today it would be clear “who respects the Constitution and who falsifies it” and he told the PP that “you don’t play with the Civil Guard” and “there is no political instrument.”
By Sumar, Lander Martinez justified the favorable vote because he defends the “federal decentralization” of powers and the respect of the “sovereign agreements” between the two governments and the Navarrese Parliament, while denouncing the “centralizing turn” of the PP towards a “state”unitary and uniform“.
The ERC representative, Ines Granollerswho positioned himself “in favour of the autonomy of the territories”, took the opportunity to demand for Catalonia the transfer of competence in the matter of the driving licence examination, which, according to him, would resolve the “long” waits that they currently suffer. .the candidates.
Isabelle Pozueta, by EH Bildusaid that this is a contribution to advance “in autonomy and sovereignty” and recalled that this will now be a reality “thanks” to the agreement reached by EH Bildu with the State Government.
The PNV spokesperson, Aitor Estebanstressed that it took “five years to comply with what was signed and also for the resales to other political groups” and considered that the PP “says it likes the jurisdiction, but it likes it without content.”
For his part, Alberto Catalan, of the UPN, said that “anyone who says today that voting affirmatively means that the Civil Guard stops providing its services in Navarre is lying” and explained that his party defends the transfer of this power “and at the same time the presence of the Civil Guard in the Foral Community”.
On the contrary, the Sergio Sayas, PP MP He said before the socialist bench: “Today we are not talking about competition but about whether we will approve the pact they made with Bildu to have budgets”; something he described as “marketing” and “negotiations with pro-ETA members.”
In turn, the Ignacio Hoces, parliamentarian of Vox stressed that this reform “was not born from a social need” but “only due to the confluence of the interests of Bildu to de-Spanishize Navarre and Pedro Sánchez to be in power for a few more minutes”, while demanding that the PP “apologize for the concessions made to the separatists.”
This reform, approved by the Spanish and Navarrese governments within the Transfer Commission, aims to protect the exclusive competence of Navarre in matters of traffic and road safety issues, after the Supreme Court annulled the government’s royal decree of April 2023 regarding the transfer, stating that for this purpose the route now undertaken should be used.
The plenary session of the Parliament of Navarre already approved in May, also with the only votes against PPN and Vox, the Lorafna modification agreed with the State.
