Overview
- President María Chivite announced in the regional parliament that she will propose recognizing euskera as a 'lengua propia' of Navarra and take the idea to the parliamentary ponencia for the Lorafna update.
- The proposal was made on Thursday in plenary debate and was framed as an education-first, non-coercive plan to increase social acceptance of Basque across the community.
- Chivite credited the spread of Basque to public policies such as the expansion of Modelo D Basque-medium schooling, noting units opened since 2020/2021 in localities like Mendigorría, Larraga, Lezkairu, Aibar and Falcés.
- The announcement did not include the text of any legal amendment and left unresolved whether Article 9’s current linguistic zonification and official-status rules for vascoparlant, mixed and non-vascoparlant areas will change.
- The move responds in part to recent public demonstrations in Pamplona calling for 'conditions to live in euskera' and sets up a parliamentary process that will determine concrete legal effects and next steps.