The regionalist party has offered the people to go to the polls together on the same terms as in the 2015 general election, when the UPN nominated the first two positions in the candidacy for the Congress of Deputies and the PP headed the list for the Senate.
Union of the Navarro People (UPN) and the Popular Party (PP) will be available separately in the Foral Community general election on July 23 by failing to agree to appear in a coalition.
The regionalist party had offered the popular go to the polls together in the same terms as in the 2015 general election, when UPN nominated the first two positions in the candidacy for the Congress of Representatives and the PP chose the head of the list for the Senate.
The PP responded with a counter-proposal based on the agreement reached in 2011 that required the UPN to vote for the popular candidate’s inauguration as well as Budgets, as well as requiring one of the first two names in Congress from the PPN would be and so would two of the three senators. A proposal that “does not reflect the reality of what Navarre is and what it has been in the last four agreements between UPN and PPN,” said UPN’s president, Javier Esparzain an interview on Cadena Cope.
Both sides started explore the possibility of entering a coalition in the general election last Tuesday, June 6, when, as the UPN leader explained, he received a call from the general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, asking about the willingness of the regionalists to go to the elections together.
Wednesday June 7 both formations accused each other of not wanting to go to the elections together. Esparza criticized the fact that there had been no contacts to study this possibility until “only three and a half days after the deadline for registering possible electoral coalitions”. He called for “unifying the centre-right vote” around his initials, though he pointed out that whatever delegates UPN could get would vote for Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s inauguration.
The PP replied that same day that the UPN had informed them of its “refusal to join a coalition” and suggested the possibility of the PP including regionalist candidates as independents on its lists. For the people was a coalition”justified, more than everdue to the exceptional circumstances of this election call, where the concentration of votes takes place in the centre-right space around the PP, to which is added Ciudadanos’ decision not to attend the election. bet on “to bring together the centre-right voices in Navarre”, since Núñez Feijóo is “the only alternative to change Sánchez’s government”. After these statements, both formations crossed proposals. UPN proposed repeating the 2015 formula, in which UPN chose the first two candidates for Congress and the PP ran the Senate; while the PP offered the 2011 agreement under which one of the first two names to Congress would be from the PP. Offers not accepted by both formations so that they go separately in the next election on July 23.
Source: EITB
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