UPN and the Popular Party have reached an agreement in principle for both parties to participate jointly in the general elections on November 29. The name of the electoral coalition will be 'Unión del Pueblo Navarro in coalition with the Popular Party' and its objective is to prevail over the PSOE in Navarra after the victory three years ago of the list led by the current vice president Javier Remirez. The agreement also includes the commitment to eliminate the exceptional mechanism for the incorporation of Navarra into Euskadi contained in the Fourth Transitional Provision of the Spanish Constitution.
The president of the Unión del Pueblo Navarro (UPN) Cristina Ibarrola and the general secretary of the PP Miguel Tellado have signed an agreement that recovers the agreement of the two parties in Navarra with the immediate objective of, together, being the first electoral list on 29N. The agreement has enormous political significance because the two parties resume a harmony that was broken in 2023 and that has conditioned subsequent electoral results. Four years ago, the Navarrese socialists managed to be the first force in the general elections by obtaining almost 93,000 votes compared to the 56,843 of the PP of Alberto Núñez Feijóo and the 51,764 of the UPN that Javier Esparza then presided over. EH Bildu was ahead of both parties by adding 58,686 ballots.
The pact reached to compete under the name 'Unión del Pueblo Navarro in coalition with the Popular Party' will enable this coalition to obtain two deputies and obtain three senators if they obtain more votes than the PSN. In addition, a victory will reduce the current socialist representation by one seat in Congress and would add three senators to the center-right coalition in Navarra.
But the agreement sealed by Ibarrola and Tellado that the UPN Political Council has to corroborate this afternoon includes an important programmatic commitment. According to this pact, both parties express their support for the Improvement of the Jurisdiction and to promote and vote in favor of the elimination of the fourth transitional provision of the Spanish Constitution - which provides for the mechanism of incorporation of Navarra into Euskadi -, in an eventual reform of the same. The support for Improvement - the historical 'statute' of the province - is completed with an aspiration from UPN to terminate the Fourth Transitional Provision that was included in the Constitution due to pressure from the PNV
This addendum determines an extraordinary way for Navarra to annex Euskadi that is not contemplated for the union of the rest of the Spanish communities. The exceptional mechanism of the Fourth Transition facilitates annexation when it is proposed by the Government of Navarra and subsequently ratified in a referendum compared to what is established for the rest of the regions in article 143 of the Spanish Constitution.
Furthermore, in terms of infrastructure, UPN and PP have agreed that, from the Government responsibilities exercised, "the execution of the State investments necessary to develop the strategic infrastructures of Navarra will be promoted and guaranteed, such as the second phase of the Navarra Canal, the high-speed train and its connection with the Basque Y, the Pamplona airport and the reinforcement of the Navarra electrical network."
Another point included in the principle of agreement establishes that the coalition's electoral program will be the one that is drafted and approved by a drafting commission of both parties and will synthesize the projects of both formations.
