The concept of hegemony on Gramsci and Laclau. An approach to the rivalry of the hegemony in Navarre

Abstract

Between 1979 and 2015, the Government of Navarre has had presidencies of UCD, CDN, UPN and PSN. All of these parties maintain a Spanish identity, and following the lead of UPN, call themselves «Navarristas.» The political parties that defended a different kind of politics have been out of the government during these years, with some short lived exceptions.The elections on 24th May 2015, however, had results that would be unimaginable during last decade in Navarre. In this article, we will examine the dispute of hegemony which began during the last political term between 2011 and 2015. To this end, we have tried to explore the various meanings of the concept of hegemony according to academic literature of Vladímir Ilich Ulyanov «Lenin», Antonio Gramsci and Ernesto Laclau and use this in our analysis of the case of Navarre.