UPN has chosen Ibarrola as the top of the list for the Navarre elections with 85% of the votes
Ibarrola has said he faces the challenge with a commitment to "lead the political change that Navarre needs" and has stressed that his party is "the only real alternative."
Ibarrola, after learning of his victory.
UPN President Cristina Ibarrola will be his party's main candidate in the next presidential election after winning 84.74% of the vote in the internal elections held this Friday by the UPN Political Council.
The regionalist president has imposed himself on the affiliates Juan Ángel García Roig and Diego Calderón Fernández. Ibarrola has won 150 votes, García Roig 1 and Calderón 323 blank.
Ibarrola thus replaces Javier Esparza, the presidential candidate in the three elections since 2015.
Cristina Ibarrola Guillén (Pamplona, 1969) will be UPN's second female presidential candidate. The previous one was Yolanda Barcina , who was president from 2011 to 2015.
Graduated in Medicine and Surgery and specialist in Family and Community Medicine, Ibarrola served as Member of Parliament in the previous legislature as Health Spokesperson.
UPN appointed him as the top of the list for the Pamplona City Council and managed to become the second female mayor , after his party partner Yolanda Barcina, who was in three consecutive legislatures. He also replaced his party colleague Enrique Maya in that position.
He was elected as the most voted on list, but months later the late EH Bildu councillor, Joseba Asiron, took his place thanks to a motion of censure.
Ibarrola has said that he has taken up the challenge "withthecommitment to lead the political change that Navarre needs "and has stressed that his party is" the only real alternative "to Maria Chivite's government to" populist parties that have no proposals. "
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