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Miguel Sanz elected as President of Navarra
By h.b. - Aug 11, 2007 - 8:28 PM
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Miguel Sanz has been elected President of Navarra with a simple majority. He represents the regionalist UPN party, and his election comes thanks 11 blank votes from the Navarra Socialists, plus one other who abstained.
The Navarra Socialists were thus following instructions given to them from the party executive in Madrid which had vetoed a previous pact between them and the NaBai and IU parties.
With his minority government Sanz immediately faces a possible vote of no confidence and has already distanced himself from certain policies of the Partido Popular with whom the UPN are aligned in Navarra.
He has already warned that if the region proves ungovernable he will call new elections, and in his investiture speech distanced himself from the PP policy against ETA, and claiming that a time of coexistence and hope was starting.
More than 100 people outside the Parliament booed the Socialists for following Madrid’s instructions in the vote, and then four more members of the local Socialist executive announced their resignation, in addition to those of the youth section of the party already announced.
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