Socialist Party of Navarre

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Socialist Party of Navarre
Partido Socialista de Navarra
Membership (2014)1,634 [1]
Ideology Social democracy [2]
Navarrese regionalism
Spanish unionism
Progressivism
Political position Centre-left
National affiliation Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
Parliament of Navarre
11 / 50
Congress of Deputies
1 / 5
(Navarrese seats)
Local seats
208 / 1,889
Website
www.psn-psoe.org/navarra/

The Socialist Party of Navarre (Spanish : Partido Socialista de Navarra, Basque : Nafarroako Alderdi Sozialista) is a regional branch of the mainstream Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), the main centre-left party in Spain since the 1970s.

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History

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 right wing forces (UCD, UPN).

In August 2007, Socialist chief officials in Madrid instructed the head of the party in Navarre Carlos Chivite and his PSN peers to undo the agreement reached with Nafarroa Bai to produce a progressive majority, and allow UPN to govern Navarre instead. [3] The former Secretary-General was Roberto Jiménez, who won 70.5% of the vote in an election at the ninth regional congress on June 28, 2008. He 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. Since December 2014, Maria Chivite, niece of Carlos Chivite, is the Secretary-General of the PSN.

In February 2014, during the latest crisis affecting the credit of UPN high-ranking officials in government, [4] 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. [5] [6] In 2011 members disaffected with PSN's alliance policy contributed to the foundation of the coalition Izquierda-Ezkerra 2 MPs in the Parliament of Navarre (July 2015).

Electoral performance

Parliament of Navarre

Parliament of Navarre
ElectionLeading candidateVotes %Seats+/–Government
1979 Jesús Malón48,28918.94 (#2)
15 / 70
Coalition
1983 Gabriel Urralburu 94,73735.63 (#1)
20 / 50
Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 5Opposition (1983–1984)
Minority (1984–1987)
1987 78,45327.68 (#1)
15 / 50
Red Arrow Down.svg 5Minority
1991 91,64533.36 (#2)
19 / 50
Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 4Opposition
1995 Javier Otano 62,02120.87 (#2)
11 / 50
Red Arrow Down.svg 8Coalition (1995–1996)
Opposition (1996–1999)
1999 Juan José Lizarbe61,53120.28 (#2)
11 / 50
Arrow Blue Right 001.svg 0Opposition
2003 65,00321.15 (#2)
11 / 50
Arrow Blue Right 001.svg 0Opposition
2007 Fernando Puras74,15722.49 (#3)
12 / 50
Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 1Opposition
2011 Roberto Jiménez51,23815.85 (#2)
9 / 50
Red Arrow Down.svg 3 Coalition (2011–2012)
Opposition (2012–2015)
2015 María Chivite 45,16413.37 (#5)
7 / 50
Red Arrow Down.svg 2Opposition
2019 71,83820.63 (#2)
11 / 50
Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 4 Coalition
2023 68,24720.69 (#2)
11 / 50
Arrow Blue Right 001.svg 0 Coalition

Cortes Generales

Cortes Generales
ElectionCongressSenate
Votes %Seats+/–Seats+/–
1977 54,72021.17 (#2)
2 / 5
0 / 4
1979 55,39921.90 (#2)
1 / 5
Red Arrow Down.svg 1
1 / 4
Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 1
1982 112,18637.64 (#1)
3 / 5
Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 2
3 / 4
Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 2
1986 97,01035.52 (#1)
2 / 5
Red Arrow Down.svg 1
3 / 4
Arrow Blue Right 001.svg 0
1989 86,67731.19 (#2)
2 / 5
Arrow Blue Right 001.svg 0
1 / 4
Red Arrow Down.svg 2
1993 108,30534.87 (#2)
2 / 5
Arrow Blue Right 001.svg 0
1 / 4
Arrow Blue Right 001.svg 0
1996 98,10230.26 (#2)
2 / 5
Arrow Blue Right 001.svg 0
1 / 4
Arrow Blue Right 001.svg 0
2000 82,68827.32 (#2)
2 / 5
Arrow Blue Right 001.svg 0
1 / 4
Arrow Blue Right 001.svg 0
2004 113,90633.55 (#2)
2 / 5
Arrow Blue Right 001.svg 0
1 / 4
Arrow Blue Right 001.svg 0
2008 117,92034.76 (#2)
2 / 5
Arrow Blue Right 001.svg 0
1 / 4
Arrow Blue Right 001.svg 0
2011 72,89222.02 (#2)
1 / 5
Red Arrow Down.svg 1
1 / 4
Arrow Blue Right 001.svg 0
2015 54,85615.52 (#3)
1 / 5
Arrow Blue Right 001.svg 0
0 / 4
Red Arrow Down.svg 1
2016 58,17317.35 (#3)
1 / 5
Arrow Blue Right 001.svg 0
0 / 4
Arrow Blue Right 001.svg 0
Apr. 2019 94,55125.76 (#2)
2 / 5
Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 1
1 / 4
Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 1
Nov. 2019 83,73425.00 (#2)
1 / 5
Red Arrow Down.svg 1
1 / 4
Arrow Blue Right 001.svg 0
2023 93,55327.37 (#1)
2 / 5
Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 1
3 / 4
Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 2

European Parliament

European Parliament
ElectionVotes %
1987 83,11129.49 (#1)
1989 65,54028.60 (#1)
1994 57,10224.80 (#2)
1999 74,00424.78 (#2)
2004 69,83334.94 (#2)
2009 63,84831.48 (#2)
2014 31,62914.48 (#3)
2019 95,16427.96 (#1)

Secretary-General

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