UPN has reiterated this Monday its demand for a change in the Executive, both in Navarra and in Spain, following the alleged corruption cases that tarnish the PSOE. In parallel, the PSN has stressed that it will "continue working so that María Chivite continues to be the president of Navarra".
After the meeting of the Board and Spokespersons' Board of the Parliament of Navarra, UPN spokesperson Javier Esparza has questioned that the president of the regional government and general secretary of the PSN, María Chivite, stated that she does not know if the chain of judicial processes affecting the PSOE are "coincidences". Based on those words, Esparza has wondered if "it is a hoax that last week the UCO entered Ferraz, or is it a hoax that the UCO searched the private home of Mr. Cerdán -former Organization Secretary of the PSOE- and a warehouse in Milagro".
The regionalist leader has reproached that "a state political party, which is governing Spain, that a governing political party in Navarra, talks about attempts to overthrow the government in an undemocratic way". In his opinion, "I think it does a disservice to democracy. They are insulting and questioning the Rule of Law, they are attacking judges, they are attacking prosecutors, the police, the Civil Guard, and they are defending Cerdán, Zapatero and company".
In this vein, Esparza has insisted that, "when you are caught with the ice cream cart, you have to go home, and that is what has happened to the PSN and the PSOE". As he indicated, "when you are caught, you have to go home, the Government in Navarra and in Spain must change and you have to clean up your party from within, which it badly needs. That is what María Chivite and Pedro Sánchez should be doing".
From the PSN, its parliamentary spokesperson, Ainhoa Unzu, has remarked that her group will "continue working so that María Chivite continues to be the president of Navarra, with the tranquility of presenting very good results and with the ambition that there are still many future challenges". She added that "we are going to continue improving Navarra and nothing will move us from that path".
Unzu has defended that, "while María Chivite's Government is working with the sole objective of improving our Community, part of this Parliament continues in permanent bickering and dedicating itself to everything except building". In this context, she has censured a motion registered by Vox in the Chamber in which socialists are defined as "a band of corrupt, mafiosi, and criminals". As she detailed, the initiative has been rejected "for being riddled with offenses, insults, disrespect, and slurs, something that in all the years I have been in this Parliament I had never seen".
Furthermore, the socialist spokesperson has questioned UPN about whether they would support an eventual investiture led by the Popular Party and has stressed that "here the only party convicted of corruption is the PP". In her opinion, "if the right-wing in this country wants to get rid of Pedro Sánchez, let them use a democratic tool like a motion of no confidence, and not less democratic formulas like 'he who can, let him do it' -in reference to the words spoken by former Prime Minister José María Aznar-".
The spokesperson for Geroa Bai, Pablo Azcona, has expressed his "concern about the information referring to possible cases of corruption at the state level that directly affect the Socialist Party". He has considered that "public and political explanations are required, and the president will appear in the coming weeks. Stability must be given to Governments. That is what Geroa Bai does in institutions, giving stability and responding to public policies, and it always does so by demanding transparency, democratic values, and zero tolerance for corruption".
The PPN parliamentarian Irene Royo has described that "the situation we are experiencing is a grotesque spectacle in the purest Valle-Inclán style, it is proving quite grotesque and exaggerated, and all of this is very detrimental to our country, our future, and our well-being".
Royo has insisted that "there are no Budgets and Sánchez does not dare even to present them, the Government does not have sufficient support to pass any law, political instability is increasing every day, and to all this is added political corruption". In his opinion, "corruption cases are multiplying exponentially. An unstable Government is joined by a Government cornered by corruption. If we add corruption plus instability, the result is a ticking time bomb. Therefore, the insistence of the Popular Party that elections must be called".
The spokesperson for Contigo-Zurekin, Carlos Guzmán, has stated that "the latest news we are hearing again about certain practices linked to the PSOE apparatus repulses us". He has emphasized that "we have to say it clearly. We reject any corrupt activity, wherever it comes from and whoever it affects, without denying that we find ourselves in a political context in which the international fascist right - we are seeing it in our country with the activity of the Embassy of the United States of America in Madrid - is trying by all means to bring down the coalition Government".
Guzmán has added that the PSOE "must be fully aware of the seriousness of the moment we are in and must also be aware that some of the alleged practices attributed to elements of its apparatus are the greatest danger that progressive coalition Governments have at this moment". Therefore, he has called for "the PSOE to move on once and for all and to carry out an essential exercise of transparency and accountability to the entire Spanish citizenry".
The spokesperson for Vox, Emilio Jiménez, has detailed that his group has promoted a motion to urge the Executives of Spain and Navarra to "condemn the corruption scandals and to express the need for an immediate call for general elections so that Spaniards can choose a Government free of corruption".
However, the Parliament's Board has decided not to admit the motion for processing, understanding that it included "offensive expressions" in its explanatory statement. It has also not allowed a question regarding the registration at the PSOE headquarters, deeming that "they do not affect Navarre". Emilio Jiménez has denounced that "there is a gag law" in the regional Parliament and has assured that "everything that Vox presents is, for the most part, rejected. There are always justifications of all kinds".