The president of Navarra, María Chivite, has announced that the transfer of Traffic powers to the Foral Community will be effective on July 1. The transfer will become effective next Tuesday when a meeting of the Transfer Board is called in Madrid. With this agreement, President Pedro Sánchez fulfills the commitment made with EH Bildu to close the Traffic transfer before March 31 and certifies that Civil Guard agents will no longer patrol or provide assistance to the citizens of the foral community.
Chivite has taken advantage of the plenary session that the regional Parliament is holding today to affirm that it is “a great day for Navarra”. Chivite has recalled that it is “a historic demand” from the Foral Community and therefore has considered that the agreement closed with the central government is “a historic step.” The preliminary agreement reached between the Government of Spain and the regional government entails the disappearance of the Traffic Unit of the Civil Guard, currently made up of almost 140 agents.
The president of Navarra has not revealed how the departure of this unit from the Armed Institute will take place nor the deadlines for the incorporation of the 149 new agents that will be necessary for the Foral Police to assume this responsibility. At present, the two police forces complement each other in control and assistance services on Navarre roads. In addition, the transfer must incorporate the conditions so that Traffic civil guards can join the regional police. Civil Guard agents stationed in Navarra have warned that they do not have any information about this ‘catwalk’ when the date of July 1 has already been set for the progressive disappearance of the Traffic Unit.
The agreement has been celebrated as “very good news” by the parliamentary spokesperson and EH Bildu candidate for the presidency of Navarra Laura Aznal. The representative of the Abertzale left in Navarra has highlighted that this announcement “complies within the established times”, in reference to the commitments acquired with the formation of Arnaldo Otegi by President Sánchez.
As EL MUNDO published last November, the Government of Pedro Sánchez reached an agreement to approve the General State Budget for 2023 after having the support, among others, of EH Bildu. The express support of the abertzale formation occurred, after the commitment of the Executive to withdraw from the Civil Guard the powers of Traffic and Road Safety in the foral community of Navarra.
The announcement of the effective date of the transfer comes with two months to go before the regional elections are held. Some key elections for the tripartite that has been in charge of the foral community this legislature. According to a recent survey by Sigma Dos for EL MUNDO, María Chivite’s PSOE would show wear and tear due to her management, penalized with a 3.2% drop in the votes it obtained in 2019, which would translate into a balance of nine deputies, two less than you currently have.
Its minority partners in the coalition would not make a profit from their entry into the regional Executive either. Geroa Bai could keep its nine seats or lose one, while Podemos would go from having two parliamentarians to one or even no representation in Parliament.
By contrast, the electoral trend of EH Bildu is upward. The abertzale formation, which has externally supported the Navarrese PSOE government and facilitated the investiture of Chivite, was invested, rose from 14.5% to 15.1% in voting intentions, which would add eight deputies instead of seven.
Although the clear winner of the elections will be the regionalist candidacy of Unión del Pueblo Navarro (UPN), Javier Esparza’s party that will once again stand alone after promoting the Navarra Suma coalition together with PP and Ciudadanos during the last legislature. Esparza has already won the 2015 and 2019 elections and aspires to reissue a comfortable victory with appeals to socialist voters critical of Sánchez and Chivite’s agreements with EH Bildu. However, on this occasion UPN will have as a rival the PP of Navarra, which presents Javier García as a candidate for the presidency and has incorporated into its political project the deputies Carlos García Adanero and Sergio Sayas, expelled from UPN but who maintain their seats in The congress.
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