Unión del Pueblo Navarro

European party
Unión del Pueblo Navarro (UPN)
Distribution:	Navarre ( Spain )
Establishment date:	3rd January 1979
Place of foundation:	Pamplona
Party President:	Yolanda Barcina Angulo (since 2009)
Secretary General:	Alberto Catalan
Members:	approx. 7,000 (as of 2008)
Proportion of women:	circa %
Youth organization:	Juventudes Navarras (JJNN)
Alignment:	conservative , regionalist
Address:
Website:	www.upn.org
Europe Party :	no
Strength
Election result:	39.29 percent in the Navarre region
Government:	opposition
Congreso :	2/350
Senado	1/266
EU Parliament :	0/59

Unión del Pueblo Navarro (UPN, Union of the Navarre People ) is a regional party in the Spanish Autonomous Community of Navarre . UPN has around 7,000 members and is politically center-right.

The UPN represents a regional Navarres patriotism and distinguishes itself from Basque nationalism.

The UPN provided the regional government in Navarre from 1991 to 1995 and from 1996 to 2015. From 1991 to 2008 it acted as the regional association of the Partido Popular .

history

UPN was founded in 1979 as a split from the Spanish party UCD , as UCD had not spoken out clearly against the unification of Navarre with the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country . Already in the Spanish parliamentary elections of 1979 , which took place two months later , she won a seat, shortly afterwards she got 13 of 70 MPs in the Navarres regional elections. From 1982 UPN won two or three seats in all Spanish parliamentary elections.

In the following years, UPN established itself as the most important conservative party in Navarre and as the bearer of a Navarre regionalism that was turned against Basque nationalism. From 1982 there was an agreement between the UPN and the Spanish-wide active conservative party Partido Popular (PP), according to which they ran together in elections and formed a common parliamentary group in the Spanish parliament ; In 1991, the previously existing PP regional organization in Navarre was merged with the UPN. In the same year, the party achieved a relative majority in the regional parliament for the first time and was able to provide the Navarres president with Juan Cruz Alli .

After the Navarres Socialists (PSN, the regional association of the PSOE ) briefly took over the regional government in 1995, Miguel Sanz was again a UPN member, president of a minority government . Although UPN was able to improve its election result in the following regional elections, it did not achieve an absolute majority, but was tolerated by small parties and the PSN.

This tolerance came into danger after the regional elections of 2007, in which UPN obtained 42.2% of the votes, as the conflicts between the PP and PSOE also diverged from each other at the Spanish level. In addition, the NaBai electoral alliance , in which all of Navarre's probascan small parties had come together, became the second strongest force with 23.7%. As a result, coalition negotiations between PSN and NaBai came about, which the PSN only broke off under pressure from the PSOE leadership. This allowed the UPN government to continue to govern, but its dependence on tolerance by the PSN was made clear.

This became evident a year later in the Spanish parliament when the PSOE minority government under José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero ran into difficulties in obtaining a majority for the 2009 budget . Deviating from the line of the PP group, which voted against the budget, UPN, which had won two seats in the Spanish parliamentary elections in March 2008 , declared its willingness to abstain. In fact, one of the UPN MPs and the rest of the PP parliamentary group voted against the budget, while the other followed the instructions of the party leadership and abstained.

The PP thereupon suspended the 1982 agreement on October 22, 2008 and threatened the UPN leadership with a "break in contact". The UPN responded by banning the MP who voted against the budget and another prominent member who publicly supported the PP from the party. This in turn led to the fact that on October 28, the PP finally terminated the alliance with UPN and rebuilt its Navarres regional association, which was dissolved in 1991; Members excluded from the UPN were offered admission to the PP. The remaining UPN MP resigned from the PP group on November 17, 2008.

After the regional elections on May 22, 2011 , the UPN formed a coalition government with the PSOE. In the elections to the Spanish parliament on November 22, 2011 , the UPN and PP ran again with a common list. One member of the UPN entered the House of Representatives and two members of the UPN entered the Senate of the Cortes Generales through this list . In both chambers, however, you do not belong to the PP group, but are non-attached.

Election results regional elections

In the elections to the regional parliament of Navarre, the UPN has achieved the following results since 1983 (the total number of members of parliament remained unchanged at 50 in all legislative terms):

	be right	%	Seats
1983	62,072	23.51	13
1987	69,419	24.84	14th
1991	96.005	34.95	20th
1995	93.163	31.34	17th
1999	125,497	41.37	22nd
2003	127,460	41.48	23
2007	139.132	42.19	22nd
2011	111,474	34.48	19th
2015	92,705	27.44	15th

See also

• Political parties in Spain

Web links

• Official homepage of the UPN (Spanish)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Elections to the Cortes Generales on March 9, 2008 , only result in the Navarre region
2. ↑ Yolanda Barcina dice que con el acuerdo UPN-PP "gana Navarra". (No longer available online.) UPN website, September 29, 2011, archived from the original on November 4, 2011 ; Retrieved October 4, 2011 (Spanish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.