He first vice president of the Government of Navarra And advisor to the Presidency and Equality, Felix Tabernashot cynicism justify his attack on Navarre by deletion of a historical traditionassuring that the government of Navarre “has not eliminated anything” from Navarre Day.
In fact, the Government of Navarra has not eliminated the choirs And music groups that for decades they have been performing at midday in many towns in Navarre Anthem of the Cortes of Navarre. What he did was take away from them to agree which they perceived without warning and with total impudence, which even their Basque nationalist partners dishonored. Today, the former advisor to chivitetoday vice-president of the Government of Navarre, Félix Taberna, to say that “we are simply making a re-examinationwe continue to remodel and work on Navarra Day Formats“.
Tavern responded in the plenary session of Parliament to an oral question from PPN on the reasons for “the reduction of the budget item for the celebration of the events of Navarra Day” and emphasized that “Navarre Day is not the day of the Government of Navarre, it is the day of all Navarrese citizens, men and women and also of their institutions.
He thus underlined that it is “a day for all citizens” and that “what the Government of Navarre is doing is, in its work scheduledeclared party precisely for this commemoration.” “We have seen how there will be musical performances choirs for civility, for promotion social entities themselves and this is very positive”, he declared, emphasizing that the Executive “celebrates” that “these musical performances continue to be maintained”.
Taberna insisted that “the government of Navarre does not eliminate these acts.” “The Government of Navarra has two grants it matters more than 800,000 euroswith a free call for competition for the maintenance and organization of musical and artistic entities and also has a second call for approximately 500,000 euros for performances that day or other days,” he said.
The councilor defended that “every day should be a day of Navarre, and from this conception, Navarre must have direction day after day, that’s why we created the concept of Navarre brand“. “We are not eliminating anything, we are in any case maintaining the identify of Navarre and we do not hide, as a leader of the southern zone of Navarre said, that we want to hide, the anthem of Navarre, but we simply reconsider it, as at the time mass of the day of Saint Francis of Xavier. We continue to remodel and work on the formats of Navarra Day and we encourage local entities, institutions and citizens to, according to their feelings, celebrate this Day. collective identity“, he explained.
The spokesperson for PPN, Javier Garciadeemed “unfortunate” the “decision of this government to reduce the budget item” for the events of the Navarrese Day and asked if there was no money to “celebrate the Navarrese Day”. As he indicated, “they really expelled the tools already at voice to celebrate such an important day for all of our Community“.
He emphasized that “the advise was right last week when he said he supported the culturebut he forgot to say that perhaps he does not support culture, essential traditions of the Foral Community, but the one that others are trying to impose on us here in Navarre “It is curious that they eliminate something like this. traditional and at such a low cost,” García said, asking the president that “culture, folklore and the traditions, which belong to all Navarrese, must protect them and not eliminate them.
