Should I thank Esparza?
Will we have to thank Esparza for the PSN not meeting with Navarre Suma to form a Navarre government? So it seems, after the first words of Esparza after the results: “We are not going to make Chivite president, either with our votes or with abstention.” Chivite, almost like Sparza, in the screams of his enthusiastic followers (“No with Sparza!”). Can you trust Chivite's words? Chivite is not Sánchez and has not managed to be the first force, in the absence of his recovery. Navarra Suma has taken him a long distance, and only with GB, Podemos and I-E will get the majority, as Chivite wants if he dissigns from EH Bildu. It's hard, harder than Sanchez, to reach one-off deals on topics playing from left to right. It would have to achieve a stronger pact with its potential Navarros left colleagues, as well as the abstention of EH Bildu. Chivite’s insistence does not herald anything good.
Chivite has a thin stem, also enviable, but stiff like a black one, to lean to the left. It cannot understand that in Navarre the left and the progressives should not only maintain socio-economic issues, but also cultural issues (including the Basque Country) if they want to create an inclusive democratic climate. Chivite’s cultural vision, particularly with regard to the linguistic richness of Navarre, is closer to the discourse of UPN than to its potential partners. To insist on the understanding of the demands for this wealth as a matter of identity, and not as a democratic issue, is not integrative. And keeping this harsh vision is to give up the plurality of Navarros' ideas. If it were for Chivite, the PSN would gladly receive the votes of Navarre Suma for the presidency.
Let us hope, then, that Esparza will be thanked for the fact that the PSN-UPN-C’s government coalition, visible or shadow, has not materialized.
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