Editing Navarre (section)

==== Tension during the Spanish transition ====

Officials and figures with good connections to the Navarrese regional government went on to join [[Adolfo Suarez|Adolfo Suárez]]'s [[Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)|UCD]], later splitting into the party [[Unión del Pueblo Navarro|UPN]] led by [[Jesús Aizpún Tuero]] (1979), refusing to join a democratic constitutional process on the grounds that Navarre's charters (or ''fueros'') remained in place. They also refused to join the [[Statute of Autonomy of the Basque Country|Basque process]] to become an autonomous community, where recently legalised Basque nationalist and leftist parties held a majority.

A continuation of the institutional framework inherited from the dictatorship and its accommodation into the Spanish democracy was guaranteed by the Betterment ("Amejoramiento"), a Navarre-only solution considered 'an upgrade' of its former status issued from the (remains of the) charters. In a three-year span, the [[Socialist Party of Navarre|Spanish Socialists in Navarre]] veered in their position, quit the Basque process, and joined the arrangement adopted for Navarre (Chartered Community of Navarre, 1982). The reform was not ratified by referendum, as demanded by Basque nationalist and minority leftist forces.