The proposal has received the support of PSN, EH Bildu, Geroa Bai and Contigo-Zurekin, while UPN, PP and Vox opposed it. The proposal aims to reform the law that came into force 41 years ago and has been revised only twice.
The Foral Regime Commission of the Parliament of Navarre has approved the creation of a presentation to promote the Organic Law of Reintegration and Improvement of the Foral Regime (LORAFNA).
The proposal has received the support of PSN, EH Bildu, Geroa Bai and Contigo-Zurekin, while UPN, PPN and Vox opposed it.
The proposal highlights the 41 years that have passed since the entry into force of the law and emphasizes the need to promote the full development of the powers established in the LORAFNA, as well as the importance of carrying out, through prior negotiations, the transfer of competences are still being processed.
Pablo Azcona, spokesperson for Geroa Bailed the defense of the presentation, underlining the need to take stock of the skills that still need to be transferred after forty years, and to highlight the social and economic changes that distinguish the current Navarrese society from that from 1982.
At the same time, he pointed out that “this debate must be open and without red lines, so that LORAFNA is a meeting between different sensitivities”, while at the same time he has advocated “an open and unrestricted debate, where consensus is required”. wanted.” He asked the socialist representatives “not to be afraid of what the right might say.”
On behalf of PSN, Ramón Alzórriz has ratified the Socialists’ “intact commitment to the fundamental principles enshrined in the LORAFNA.” In this sense, it has reaffirmed its intention to maintain the linguistic zoning.
“Since its promulgation, the LORAFNA has been revised twice, always under UPN governments,” Alzórriz told them, assuring that “the citizens do not understand the nationalists’ desire to annex Navarre to the Basque Country, nor do they understand the accusations of the government. exactly when they say PSN wants to sell Navarra.”
Laura Aznal, spokesperson for EH BildYou celebrated the approval of the commission as a historic claim to its formation and emphasized the need for this debate, explaining that his party’s first goal is “to improve the living conditions of all Navarres.”
“We want a process that is a permanent democratic exercise,” he assured, asserting that “Navarre must be the owner of its future, for its political status, its relations with the rest of the Basque territories and its relationship with the Spanish determine regions. State,” he said.
For his part, Carlos Guzmán, from Contigo-Zurekinhas emphasized the need to reflect on what he has called “the backbone of self-government”, given the transformation that Navarrese society has undergone in recent years.
“Our parliamentary group has a dialogic and ambitious attitude,” he said, assuring that “we must strengthen self-government and pursue direct ratification by the citizens.” Its objectives are “to protect and expand social rights and to radicalize the democratic system of Navarre by promoting new instruments of participatory democracy.”
The chairman of UPN, Javier Esparza, has opened the round against this country and denounced that “this starts with the obsessions of Basque nationalism to want to annex Navarre”. “Let no one count on UPN to make LORAFNA an interested negotiation, as a bargaining chip to guarantee the stability of power,” he said, while also wanting to appreciate “all that has been achieved in these four decades.”
He has accused the PSN that “with your votes you are giving a victory to EH Bildu and Geroa Bai, because it allows them to talk about the right to decide and about independence”, and also that “you would not have opened this debate if you would have done.” I don’t need the votes of “EH Bildu nor Geroa Bai to make Mrs. Chivite president.”
Javier García, from the PP, He has commented: “I don’t understand why the PSN gives in to nationalist pretensions.” “You are focused on your interests because it depends on whether you stay in government,” he snapped. In this sense, he has accused the governments of Spain and Navarre of being dependent “on nationalists and coup plotters, and that is why you kneel before their blackmail.”
Source: EITB
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