President of the Government of Navarre

The president of the Government of Navarre (Spanish: Presidente del Gobierno de Navarra), is the head of government of the devolved government of the Chartered Community of Navarre.

Election

Investiture processes to elect the regional president require for an absolute majority—more than half the votes cast—to be obtained in the first ballot. If unsuccessful, a new ballot will be held 24 hours later requiring only of a simple majority—more affirmative than negative votes—to succeed. If such majorities are not achieved, successive candidate proposals would be processed under the same procedure. In the event of the investiture process failing to elect a regional president within a three-month period from the election date, the Parliament will be automatically dissolved and a snap election called.^[1]

Once the regional president is elected, he or she is appointed by Royal Decree of the Monarch, countersigned by the Prime Minister.

List of officeholders

Since the first democratic elections of 1979 there have been two presidents of UCD in the Deputation of Navarre. Subsequently, the Government of Navarre has had two presidents of PSN, three of UPN and one of Geroa Bai. Presently Maria Chivite is President of Navarre. She was appointed to this post in August 2019.

Governments:

•   PSOE
•   UPN
•   Mixed coalition

Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office			Party		Government Composition	Election	Monarch (Reign)	Ref.
		Took office	Left office	Duration
	Jaime Ignacio del Burgo (born 1942)	19 April 1979	28 April 1980	1 year and 9 days		UCD	Foral Deputation UCD–PSOE–HB–OM	1979	King Juan Carlos I (1975–2014)	[2]
During this interval, Vice President Juan Manuel Arza served as acting officeholder.
	Juan Manuel Arza (1932–2019)	29 September 1980	14 January 1984 (removed)	3 years and 107 days		UCD				[3]
						Independent
	Jaime Ignacio del Burgo (born 1942)	14 January 1984 (reinstated)	27 April 1984	104 days		PDP				[4]
	Gabriel Urralburu (born 1950)	27 April 1984	6 October 1987	7 years and 149 days		PSN–PSOE	Urralburu I PSOE	1983		[5] [6] [7]
		6 October 1987	23 September 1991				Urralburu II PSOE	1987
	Juan Cruz Alli (born 1942)	23 September 1991	26 July 1995	3 years and 306 days		UPN	Alli UPN until May 1995 UPN–CDN from May 1995[a]	1991		[9] [10]
						CDN
	Javier Otano (born 1946)	26 July 1995	19 June 1996 (resigned)	329 days		PSN–PSOE	Otano PSOE–CDN–EA	1995		[11] [12] [13] [14]
During this interval, Vice President Juan Cruz Alli served as acting officeholder.
	Miguel Sanz (born 1952)	18 September 1996	28 July 1999	14 years and 283 days		UPN	Sanz I UPN			[15] [16] [17] [18] [19]
		28 July 1999	30 June 2003				Sanz II UPN	1999
		30 June 2003	14 August 2007				Sanz III UPN–CDN	2003
		14 August 2007	28 June 2011				Sanz IV UPN–CDN until Oct 2009 UPN from Oct 2009	2007
	Yolanda Barcina (born 1960)	28 June 2011	22 July 2015	4 years and 24 days		UPN	Barcina UPN–PSOE until Jun 2012 UPN from Jun 2012	2011		[20] [21]
									King Felipe VI (2014–present)
	Uxue Barkos (born 1964)	22 July 2015	6 August 2019	4 years and 15 days		GBai	Barkos GBai–EH Bildu–I–E	2015		[22] [23]
	María Chivite (born 1978)	6 August 2019	17 August 2023	5 years and 362 days		PSN–PSOE	Chivite I PSOE–GBai–Podemos	2019		[24] [25]
		17 August 2023	Incumbent				Chivite II PSOE–GBai–Contigo	2023

Timeline

Notes

1. After Juan Cruz Alli's split to form the CDN party, most of his regional ministers chose to stay loyal to UPN, with the regional government remaining in this situation until the end of the legislature.^[8]