Navarre Platform
Navarre Platform Plataforma Navarra | |
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| Leader | Sergio Sayas |
| Founded | 14 June 2022 |
| Split from | UPN |
| Ideology | Navarrese regionalism Conservatism Spanish unionism |
| Political position | Centre-right to right-wing |
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| plataformanavarra | |
Navarre Platform (Spanish: Plataforma Navarra) is a political and prospective electoral platform formed ahead of the 2023 Navarrese regional election by former Navarrese People's Union (UPN) Congress of Deputies MPs Sergio Sayas and Carlos García Adanero.
UPN suffered a split following a troubling vote in the Congress on the issue of labour reform on 3 February 2022, when Sayas and Adanero broke party discipline and voted against the reform proposed by Pedro Sánchez's government, almost succeeding in bringing it down despite the UPN leadership having pledged its support to the law.[1] As a result, both Sayas and Adanero had their party membership suspended,[2][3] both of whom then pledged to run on their own under a brand new platform.[4][5] This was materialized during an event held on 14 June 2022, when the platform—provisionally dubbed as "Navarre Platform" (Spanish: Plataforma Navarra)[6]—was publicly announced, with the support of former high-ranking UPN officers such as former regional Development minister Luis Zarraluqui or former mayor of Estella Begoña Ganuza, among others.[7][8][9]
The platform was one of the reasons for the political end of the Navarra Suma alliance on 15 August 2022, as the regional branch of the People's Party (PP) aimed at allying themselves with Sayas and Adanero, a scenario that would put it at odds with UPN.[10][11][12]
References
- ^ "Los dos diputados de UPN rompen con la disciplina de voto y deciden no apoyar la reforma laboral". elDiario.es (in Spanish). 3 February 2022. Retrieved 21 May 2022.
- ^ G. Lorenzo, Clara (5 February 2022). "UPN avala expulsar a Sayas y Adanero por votar en contra de la reforma laboral". El Periódico de España (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 February 2022.
- ^ Saiz, Rodrigo (1 March 2022). "UPN confirma la suspensión de militancia de Sayas y Adanero durante dos años y medio". elDiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 21 May 2022.
- ^ Saiz, Rodrigo (20 March 2022). "La plataforma de Sayas y Adanero fractura a la derecha navarra". elDiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 21 May 2022.
- ^ Esteban, Paloma (22 May 2022). "Los diputados díscolos de UPN lanzarán en junio su partido para las elecciones forales". El Periódico de España (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 May 2022.
- ^ "Sayas y Adanero presentan Plataforma Navarra como "alternativa real a Sánchez y Chivite"" (in Spanish). EiTB. Agencias. 15 June 2022. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
- ^ Fernández, Ibai (8 June 2022). "Sayas y Adanero lanzan una plataforma política en Navarra para abrir un espacio a la derecha de UPN". Noticias de Navarra (in Spanish). Pamplona. Retrieved 14 June 2022.
- ^ Fernández, Ibai (14 June 2022). "Más de un centenar de simpatizantes respaldan la nueva Plataforma de Sayas y Adanero". Noticias de Navarra (in Spanish). Pamplona. Retrieved 14 June 2022.
- ^ "Sayas y Adanero, contra todos en la presentación de su plataforma: "No pedimos perdón ni permiso"". Navarra.com (in Spanish). 14 June 2022. Retrieved 14 June 2022.
- ^ "El PP duda que UPN acepte integrar a Sayas y Adanero en Navarra Suma". Diario de Navarra (in Spanish). Europa Press. 13 August 2022. Retrieved 1 September 2022.
- ^ "Esparza dice que el PP "da por finiquitada NA+" de forma "unilateral" porque "antepone sus propias siglas"" (in Spanish). Pamplona: Europa Press. 15 August 2022. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
- ^ Lardiés, Alberto (18 August 2022). "UPN, PP y Cs desinflan Navarra Suma a nueve meses de las elecciones autonómicas". Voz Pópuli (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 September 2022.