Tomás Rodríguez, the PSN candidate who, in order on the electoral list, was going to replace the Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, Elma Saiz, has resigned from taking office as a councilor in the Pamplona City Council due to the "constant accusations, attacks and pressures" from UPN.
The PSN-PSOE has confirmed this two days before the councilor's planned inauguration in an extraordinary session ten minutes before the one called for this Thursday in which the motion of censure against the mayor of UPN, Cristina Ibarrola, will be voted on. will hand over the leadership to Joseba Asiron (EH Bildu) thanks to the pact reached by the Abertzale group and PSN.
The appointment of the until recently spokesperson for the socialist municipal group, Elma Saiz, as minister, has left the PSN with one less councilor, a position that was expected to be assumed by the next on the electoral list, Tomás Rodríguez, although the socialists have confirmed in a note that he has renounced it "after the constant accusations and attacks by UPN and the mayor herself, Cristina Ibarrola."
The Secretary of Organization of the PSN-PSOE, Ramón Alzórriz, has denounced the “continuous pressures exerted by UPN typical of other times and totally questionable democratically.” The socialist emphasizes the statement made by Mayor Ibarrola herself at a press conference, where she directly alluded to Rodríguez and uttered “disqualifications against the Socialist Party.”
It has also disfigured the "continuous attacks from the different social networks and related media in which the PSN-PSOE councilors have been pointed out through photographs." “The accusations, which is what the right is going to promote now, dressed in a moral and patriotic discourse, are very dangerous discourses, from other times that should never return,” explains Alzórriz.
With all this, the Navarrese socialist leader understands that UPN "must leave the destructive path, assume the rules of the game and not mark those who think differently."
Rodríguez occupied sixth place on the electoral list presented by the PSN for the municipal elections, in which they obtained five councilors in Pamplona, and after her resignation the position would correspond to María José Blasco (seventh), although it will finally be for the eighth of the list, Miguel Matellanes.
Matellanes, a 23-year-old native of Pamplona, is a student of Law and Political Science at UC3M and a former parliamentary advisor in the European Parliament.
