Editing Navarre (section)

=== Institutions and status ===
[[File:Pamplona - Policia Foral de Navarra1.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Patrol unit from the [[Policía Foral]], the Navarrese autonomous police force, that largely replaces the [[Policía Nacional (Spain)|Spanish National Police]] and the [[Civil Guard (Spain)|Civil Guard]] in this territory.]]
After the end of [[Francoist Spain|Franco's dictatorship]], Navarre became one of the 17 [[Autonomous communities of Spain|Autonomous Communities]] in Spain. The community ceremonies, education, and social services, together with housing, urban development, and environment protection policies are under the responsibility of Navarre's political institutions. As in the rest of the communities, Navarre has a [[Parliament of Navarre|Parliament]] elected every four years, and the majority in this Parliament determines the president of the Community, who is in charge of Navarre's government. Unlike most other autonomous communities of Spain (but like the [[Basque Country (autonomous community)|Basque Autonomous Community]]), Navarre has almost full responsibility for collecting and administering taxes which must follow the overall guidelines established by the Spanish government but may have some minor differences.

The first 3 presidents of the community belonged to the extinct [[Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)|Union of the Democratic Centre]] (UCD) party. After 1984 the government was ruled by either the [[Socialist Party of Navarre]] (PSN – PSOE, one of the federative components of the [[Spanish Socialist Workers' Party]], main centre-left wing party in Spain) or the [[Navarrese People's Union]] (UPN) (a Navarrese party that had a long alliance with the [[People's Party (Spain)|People's Party]] (PP), main right-wing party in Spain). However, in 2015 [[Uxue Barkos]] ([[Geroa Bai]]) became president with the support of [[EH Bildu]], [[Podemos (Spanish political party)|Podemos]] and [[Izquierda-Ezkerra]]. She is the first [[Basque nationalism|Basque nationalist]] president in Navarre.

[[Basque nationalism|Basque nationalist]] parties also represent a sizeable part of the vote (around 31% in the [[Navarrese regional election, 2015|2015 elections]]), and a majority in most of the northern areas. Basque nationalist parties have as a key point in their agendas to [[Southern Basque Country|merge Navarre into the Basque Autonomous Community]] by referendum (as predicted in the Spanish constitution). All Spain-based parties, as well as UPN and PSN, oppose this move.