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] 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/
Politics of Spain Political parties Elections

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.

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 rightist 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
Election	Votes	%	#	Seats	+/–	Leading candidate	Status in legislature
1979	48,289	18.94%	2nd	15 / 70	—	Jesús Malón	Mandatory coalition
1983	94,737	35.63%	1st	20 / 50	5	Gabriel Urralburu	None (1983–1984)
							Government (1984–1987)
1987	78,453	27.68%	1st	15 / 50	5	Gabriel Urralburu	Government
1991	91,645	33.36%	2nd	19 / 50	4	Gabriel Urralburu	Opposition
1995	62,021	20.87%	2nd	11 / 50	8	Javier Otano	Coalition (1995–1996)
							Opposition (1996–1999)
1999	61,531	20.28%	2nd	11 / 50	0	Juan José Lizarbe	Opposition
2003	65,003	21.15%	2nd	11 / 50	0	Juan José Lizarbe	Opposition
2007	74,157	22.49%	3rd	12 / 50	1	Fernando Puras	Opposition
2011	51,238	15.85%	2nd	9 / 50	3	Roberto Jiménez	Coalition (2011–2012)
							Opposition (2012–2015)
2015	45,164	13.37%	5th	7 / 50	2	María Chivite	Opposition
2019	71,838	20.63%	2nd	11 / 50	4	María Chivite	Coalition

Cortes Generales[]

Cortes Generales
Election	Navarre
	Congress					Senate
	Votes	%	#	Seats	+/–	Seats	+/–
1977	54,720	21.17%	2nd	2 / 5	—	0 / 4	—
1979	55,399	21.90%	2nd	1 / 5	1	1 / 4	1
1982	112,186	37.64%	1st	3 / 5	2	3 / 4	2
1986	97,010	35.52%	1st	2 / 5	1	3 / 4	0
1989	86,677	31.19%	2nd	2 / 5	0	1 / 4	2
1993	108,305	34.87%	2nd	2 / 5	0	1 / 4	0
1996	98,102	30.26%	2nd	2 / 5	0	1 / 4	0
2000	82,688	27.32%	2nd	2 / 5	0	1 / 4	0
2004	113,906	33.55%	2nd	2 / 5	0	1 / 4	0
2008	117,920	34.76%	2nd	2 / 5	0	1 / 4	0
2011	72,892	22.02%	2nd	1 / 5	1	1 / 4	0
2015	54,856	15.52%	3rd	1 / 5	0	0 / 4	1
2016	58,173	17.35%	3rd	1 / 5	0	0 / 4	0
2019 (Apr)	94,551	25.76%	2nd	2 / 5	1	1 / 4	1
2019 (Nov)	83,734	25.00%	2nd	1 / 5	1	1 / 4	0

European Parliament[]

Secretary-General[]

• Gabriel Urralburu (15 June 1982 – 20 June 1994)
• Javier Otano (20 June 1994 – 20 June 1996)
• (18 December 1997 – 18 July 2004)
• (18 July 2004 – 31 March 2008)
• (28 June 2008 – 13 December 2014)
• María Chivite (13 December 2014 – present)

References[]

External links[]

• (in Spanish) official site