The Pamplona City Council has budgets three years after the last accounts were approved

The Pamplona City Council voted in favor EH Bildu, PSN-PSOE, Geroa Bai and Contigo-Zurekin and against UPN and PPN their budget for the year 2024, three years after the last accounts.

These are bills worth 265 million of euros, 32% more than the previous year and the largest budget since 2007, for which the Socialists have taken into account amendments worth 3.7 million.

The vote is preceded by the motion of censure which took place on December 28 Cristina Ibarrola (UPN) the command staff, which completely changed the dynamics of the pacts in the city.

For the first time, the PSN promoted the mayor’s office to a candidate of EH Bildu, and also for the first time the Socialists have allowed budgets of Joseba Asirón come to the fore after they had practiced frontal opposition during their previous period at the mayor’s office, between 2015 and 2019.

These are the first budgets since the previous parliamentary term with Enrique Maya of Navarra Suma (UPN, PP and Ciudadanos) as top leader of the city, will only be able to progress with the municipal accounts for the year 2021, and then also with the support of the PSN.

UPN submitted 43 partial amendments which were unsuccessful as they received only the positive vote of the PPN, while the rest of the parties voted against.

The deputy councilor for Finance and Responsible Public Procurement and Human Resources, Garbine Buenohas stressed that Pamplona has new budgets after the city has been “blocked because the forces that governed have been unable” to agree on new bills. “The times of sectarianism, boasting, lack of management and lack of imagination are over. We are in a new era,” he emphasized.

The socialist Marina Curiel He has asked UPN to stop “expressing anger, insults and lies” and has defended that agreements are “the basis of coexistence”.

Carlos Garcia Adaneroof the PPN, has assured that these budgets “confirm that the PSN has completely surrendered to Bildu and renounced its principles” and “it is clear that the agreement went further.”

The representative of Geroa Bai Mikel Armendariz He opined that it is “a good day for Iruña” that “begins a new path of agreement, coexistence, transversality and change” to make “a benchmark, friendly and sustainable city.”

Txema Mauleónof Contigo, told María Echávarri that “Ibarrola is hiding behind you, but copying your tense speech” and stated that “a more focused, less tense and open-minded right would be very good for the citizens.”