Antonio Catalan is a Corellar businessman, a close friend of Miguel Sanz, a friend of Zapatero and one of the most representative representatives of the economic right in Navarre. At the beginning of March of last year, he telephoned the newspaper Diario de Navarra and gave them the following order: “Interview me to go out on Sunday.” Catalan’s juicy words were released on Sunday, March 4, 2007. “I would love for the UPN to make an agreement with the PSN and break completely with the PP. I am very concerned about Navarre and we must all be involved, not just politicians. I mean, I don't want to see myself under the patriots at all. If 51% of Navarrese want to be Basque, I will go to Pozuelo de Alarcón, because I want to be Navarrese and Spanish; not Basque.” There were only three months to go before the parliamentary elections and Navarre was

a source of concern for all the notorious, which is why Catalán said all this. After the votes, despite the possibility, there was no change in the Navarrese Government, because by order of the PSOE the PSN came out in favor of Sanz. In fact, the implementation of this change was not an easy matter, as ETA had long broken the deadlock to specifically prevent the change; nor did Zarzuela seem to see the change in the right light, because it has always been very “sensitive” in any matter that could happen to Navarrese; even the Navarrese management of the UGT and CCOO totally opposed it, fearing that they would lose their privileges and subsidies, and what the businessman might say. Sanz has now rewarded entrepreneurs and two loyal, docile and honest trade unions with the Navarran gold medal.

After last year’s elections, the economic right and Sanz launched the idea of making a permanent deal with the socialists, to leave NaBai completely on the sidelines and to maintain power, because they realized that only the right would not be able to continue governing. Now, after the poll commissioned by Sanz himself, they have seen that NaBai is not going down, but on the contrary, so they have considered it essential to deal with the socialists, which of course is impossible with the Popular Party at the bottom of the UPN. This is why Sanz broke his agreement with the PP, because there is no ideological difference between them. For two months we have been told that the rupture has been caused by fluctuations in the general budget of the State; this has been an excuse and, in part, the theatre.

And it's said that someone else's business has accelerated the breakup. Sanz is the president of the Caja de Ahorros de Navarra, that is, the head of the main monetary entity of Navarra, and the person in his eye is managing the Caja. Well, at a time when the crisis is raging on the margins, it is said that the Foral Box is in need of you and has sought to obtain such a privileged place to easily obtain money from the government of Zapatero. The Fund has, for the time being, been present in the two cash distributions made by the Government of Spain, which have given it more money than other larger entities.

For the time being, therefore, Sanz will go along with the Socialists and, looking ahead, by the time the PSOE hits the river – and sooner or later, it will – and the PP has the opportunity to enter Moncloa, Barcina will be the way to regroup the right. So it doesn’t seem that Corella’s friend will have to move to Pozuelo de Alarcón, at least not for a while.