Socialist Party of Navarre

The Socialist Party of Navarre (official Spanish language name: Partido Socialista de Navarra) is a regional branch of the mainstream Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), main centre-left party in Spain since the 1970s. The party can trace its history to the founding of a socialist support group for like-minded men in Pamplona in August 1902. The Socialist Group of Navarre was subsumed in the PSOE's Basque branch up to 1980, but then it veered towards a Navarre-only stance, refusing to support a referendum on the inclusion of Navarre in a Basque community (December 1979) and aligning itself in this particular point with rightist forces (UCD, UPN).

The current Secretary-General is Roberto Jiménez, who won 70.5% of the vote in an election at the ninth regional congress on June 28, 2008 and took over from Carlos Chivite after the latter's death earlier that same year. In the 2008 elections for the Parliament of Navarre the party received 115,837 votes, placing second behind the governing UPN.

In February 2014, during the latest crisis affecting the credit of UPN high-ranking officials in government,[1] PSN refused to impeach regional president Yolanda Barcina despite the clarity of the allegations and wide consensus among Navarrese political forces on the severity of the institutional crisis. Instead, the PSN leader Roberto Jimenez focused on "thoroughly condemning" and extensively elaborating on verbal abuse hurled by a crowd of protesters voicing their anger at Y. Barcina and other UPN officials in Tafalla.[2][3] In 2011 members disaffected with PSN's alliance policy contributed to the foundation of the coalition Izquierda-Ezkerra—3 MPs in the Parliament of Navarre.

Election results

Parliament of Navarre

Parliament of Navarre
Election Seats won ± Size # of votes % Government Leader
1979
15 / 70
 Increase15 2nd 48,289 18.9% Coalition (UCD-PSN-HB-Amaiur) Jesús Malón
1983
20 / 50
 Increase5 1st 94,737 35.6% Minority gov't Gabriel Urralburu
1987
15 / 50
 Decrease5 1st 78,453 27.7% Minority gov't Gabriel Urralburu
1991
19 / 50
 Increase4 2nd 91,645 33.4% Opposition Gabriel Urralburu
1995
11 / 50
 Decrease8 2nd 62,021 20.9% Coalition (PSN-CDN-EA) Javier Otano
1999
11 / 50
 ±0 2nd 61,531 20.3% Opposition Juan José Lizarbe
2003
11 / 50
 ±0 2nd 65,003 21.2% Opposition Juan José Lizarbe
2007
12 / 50
 Increase1 3rd 74,157 22.5% Opposition Fernando Puras
2011
9 / 50
 Decrease3 2nd 51,238 15.9% Coalition (UPN-PSN) Roberto Jiménez

Congress of Deputies

Congress of Deputies
Election Seats won ± Size # of votes % Candidate
1977
2 / 5
 Increase2 2nd 54,720 21.2% Felipe González
1979
1 / 5
 Decrease1 2nd 55,399 21.9% Felipe González
1982
3 / 5
 Increase2 1st 112,186 37.6% Felipe González
1986
2 / 5
 Decrease1 1st 97,010 35.5% Felipe González
1989
2 / 5
 ±0 2nd 86,677 31.2% Felipe González
1993
2 / 5
 ±0 2nd 108,305 34.9% Felipe González
1996
2 / 5
 ±0 2nd 98,102 30.3% Felipe González
2000
2 / 5
 ±0 2nd 82,688 27.3% Joaquín Almunia
2004
2 / 5
 ±0 2nd 113,906 33.6% José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
2008
2 / 5
 ±0 2nd 117,920 34.8% José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
2011
1 / 5
 Decrease1 2nd 72,892 22.0% Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba

European Parliament

European Parliament
Election Size # of votes % Candidate
1987 1st 83,111 29.5% Fernando Morán
1989 1st 65,540 28.6% Fernando Morán
1994 2nd 57,102 24.8% Fernando Morán
1999 2nd 74,004 24.8% Rosa Díez
2004 2nd 69,833 34.9% Josep Borrell
2009 2nd 63,848 31.5% Juan Fernando López Aguilar
2014 3rd 31,629 14.5% Elena Valenciano

References

  1. ↑ "Rubalcaba pide al PP que deje de utilizar a Bildu en el escándalo de Navarra". Publico. 18 February 2014. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
  2. ↑ "Barcina respalda a su consejera de Hacienda y niega la corrupción en Navarra". Publico. 15 February 2014. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
  3. ↑ "PSN y PP condenan los incidentes registrados en el acto de UPN en Tafalla". Noticias de Navarra. 16 February 2014. Retrieved 19 February 2014.

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