Like Esquerra, the CUP and the Association of Municipalities for Independence (AMI), Òmnium has ruled out going to the doors of the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) this Friday to support the president of the Parliament, Laura Borràs. The entity understands that the trial facing the leader of Junts is not taking place "to exercise civil and political rights", so she will not attend.
However, and despite the fact that Òmnium, directed by Xavier Antich, has announced that it will not send a delegation to the court, members of the board of directors will be present in a personal capacity. The management of the association was united on Wednesday afternoon to settle its position and was the last to announce its decision.
Òmnium's reasons differ somewhat from those put forward by the CUP and ERC. Marta Vilalta, spokesperson for the Republicans, stated on Monday that the trial of Borràs is for "malpractice" and "has nothing to do with 1-O or the fight for independence." For her part, the anti-capitalist Eulàlia Reguant maintained that "it is a case that, most likely, has been magnified because of who it is, but it has an origin not linked to the exercise of self-determination because it is linked to some supposed bad practices".
The AMI maintains a similar reasoning, as reported by the Agència Catalana de Notícies: it argues that the entity has always supported those who have been prosecuted for "issues clearly related to independence" and in defense of rights and freedoms. Something that understands that is not given now.
The list of absentees is completed by the Government and the Parliamentary Board. But perhaps the most notable absences will be those of Artur Mas and Xavier Trias, JxCat candidate for mayor of Barcelona. Trias adds differences with respect to the formation that has positioned him as the head of the list: he has already given up displaying the Junts brand and recently assured that he wanted to be part of "a strong and consistent party that does not do according to what nonsense". With these words he is in favor of not airing internal discrepancies.
Those who will be together are Together for Catalonia, the Council of the Republic chaired by Carles Puigdemont and the Catalan National Assembly (ANC), with its vice president, Jordi Pesarrodona, leading the delegation.
Borràs's party has chartered six coaches that will go to Barcelona to support the president of the Parliament in her trial for prevarication and document falsification, since she divided contracts while she presided over the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes (ILC) to supposedly favor a friend of hers , Isaias Herrero.
Borràs faces the trial with a complicated situation after Herrero has negotiated an agreement with the Prosecutor's Office to confess the facts. A confession that could frame her.
