The president of PPN, Javier Garciaannounced this Monday that his party would present to the Senate a complete amendment to the reform of the system Organic Law of Reintegration and Improvement of the Public Regime of Navarre (Lorafna) that the Spanish Government and the Provincial Government have agreed to realize the transfer of traffic to Navarra. This reform was seen as a concession to the demands of EH Bildu and other parties, who continue the expulsion of the Civil Guard of Navarre, a measure to which all parties have also rallied, including UPN.
Given that the PP has an absolute majority in the Senate, the Lorafna reform would not prosper and would therefore have to return to Congress for a new vote that would overcome the veto of the Upper House. In this context, the Chivite Government refused to establish a collaboration agreement in trafficking between Civil Guard and the Provincial Policean option that the PPN had suggested to avoid the total departure of the Civil Guard in the region.
Recently, the PP of Navarre insisted on the need for an agreement with the Civil Guard, for the shared management of movement powers in the community, before supporting the reform of Lorafna. Javier García criticized this situation, saying that the expulsion of the Civil Guard is due to “blackmail by Bildu”.
At the end of the Table and the Council of Spokespersons of the Parliament of Navarre, the groups of The UPN, PSN and Geroa Bai have shaken the position of the PP.
More precisely, the spokesperson for The UPN, Javier Esparza, considered that the PP amendment is “an attack on the regional regime” and declared that “this hurts us”. “I believe that this is done for political interests that are very far from the reality of Navarre, because the modification of the Improvement that is going to be voted on only means and only results in Navarre having recognized something that we believed to have, what “It is the historic right to have exclusive competition in traffic. This does not mean anything else, with this vote, no other agreement is concluded,” he indicated. He then reiterated the position of the UPN in favor of exclusive competence in matters of traffic for Navarre and a service provided jointly by the Foral Police and the Civil Guard.
The spokesperson for PSN, Ramón Alzórriz, censored “the real and conscious veto of the PP to the extension of Navarrese rights in the form of road competition.” “The PP once again shows its anti-foralist side. He is going to vote against the expansion of powers and the UPN has something to say there, that is to say, to validate, support and be a privileged partner of a party which attacks the Navarrese,” he said. critical.
In the same spirit, the spokesperson for Geroa Bai, Pablo Azcona, declared that “the Popular Party will do everything possible to torpedo the transfer of exclusive traffic jurisdiction to the provincial police, therefore, it will torpedo everything possible to ensure that self-government and Lorafna“. “We call on the People’s Party to accept the parliamentary majority of 45 votes of this Parliament which sent a reform to the Cortes so that it can be approved and the transfer of a competence can be carried out once and for all. should have arrived in Navarre 40 years ago,” he stressed.
THE RESPONSE OF THE GOVERNMENT OF NAVARRA
THE President of the Government of Navarra, María ChiviteHa rejected this Monday the “mantra” according to which the Civil Guard will have to leave the community and indicated that the terms of integration of the agents of the Armed Institute into the Foral Police will be negotiated with their representatives.
Chivite, who participated in an EFE Forum event with the president of the news agency, Miguel Ángel Oliver, explained that after the predictable rejection of the transfer of exclusive Traffic competence to Navarre In the Senate, where the PP has a majority, he hopes that it will be ratified in Congress before the end of the year.
“It’s a skill that Navarre already exercised” and which was lost during the dictatorship, commented the president, who stressed that this “has been a requirement of all the presidents of the Government of Navarre”, regardless of their political color.
In fact, he recalls, President José María Aznar has already agreed on this transfer with Navarrese President Miguel Sanz. “The PP is playing with this issue,” he lamented.
In this sense, he emphasized that Aznar transferred traffic jurisdiction to Catalonia and he pledged to make it a reality for Navarre, but “if the Socialist Party does it, we will break Spain.”
“This PP mantra that we expel the Civil Guard from Navarrenothing could be further from the truth,” he said.
For his part, the first vice-president of the government of Navarre, Félix Taberna, Ha asked the PP to “remove” the “veto” to the improvement reform so that the Foral Community can assume road competitionafter announcing a comprehensive amendment to the Senate, which he called a “major error.” He asked the PP to “think better about what autonomous development is and what the Spanish Constitution and Title VIII of the Constitution mean, which is territorial organization.”
In media statementsTaberna stressed that although the PP’s decision was expected, it “does not cease to be significant and impactful.” “The possibility that the Senate, as a Chamber of Territorial Representation, can veto an initiative agreed between the two governments, the Government of Spain and Navarra, and which aims to strengthen the powers of our Improvement in matters of “autonomy, can be a contradiction in terms; a Senate as a House of territorial representation which rejects the development of our totally constitutional autonomous system is a contradiction in terms”, he underlined.
As he said, the PP “is always on time“The Government of Navarre, as an institution, cannot make a value judgment on what this means, in party terms, but we ask the PP, its national leadership, to think better, to leave the debate takes place and that this initiative, guided by the judgment of the Supreme Court, can develop,” he explained.
Taberna stated that, from a constitutional perspective: “the veto is saved by the Congress of Deputies“Therefore, if they maintain the veto in the Senate, it will be voted on, it will have the absolute majority that it has in the Senate – the PP – and it will be saved by Congress within at least two months.” , he said, emphasizing that once approved again by Congress, it will be published to the BOE and BON “at the end of December, beginning of January.”
The vice-president recalled that the reform of Lorafna “It is an initiative supported by the Parliament of Navarra, by the Congress of Deputies, by the Government of Spain and by the Government of Navarra”, therefore he considered that the political position of the PP is “very vague”.
