The suspended president of Parliament, Laura Borràs, has defended herself by attacking and shooting all the people who have incriminated her during the trial being held in the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia for the alleged division of contracts at the Institució de les Lletres Catalans: He has fired at the ILC administrator who accused her of ignoring his warnings that contracts were being broken up and has targeted Isaías Herrero, his friend who confessed that they cut up and falsified contracts so that they would be awarded to him by hand.
The leader of Junts, who has only answered her lawyers, has defended the way in which Herrero was hired to take charge of the creation of a web portal that was to become "the window of Catalan literature on the world". . Eighteen contracts were made for different jobs that did not respond to a single job. In this context, Borràs has accused the head of administration of the ILC, Assumpta P, of being the person who devised and told him how he should hire Herrero, and then processed all the files without raising the alarm about alleged irregularities.
Throughout his speech, Borràs pointed out to the head of administration after she revealed last week in court that on several occasions she had alerted Borràs that Isaías Herrero's contracts were being divided and this practice could breach the law of contracts. “Ms. Assumpta P. is very professional, she worked very correctly and personally prepared the contracting files, about ten files, and ensured that they were complied with. If she hadn't wanted to do it, she wouldn't have done it ”, Borràs replied.
The administrator's statement dealt a severe blow to Borràs' line of defense and for this reason today he wanted to combat these accusations by charging forcefully against the official. “I understand that being subjected to a judicial process is a tremendously uncomfortable matter and that everyone responds as best they can and, therefore, I understand that (Assumpta P.) wants to take the responsibility off his shoulders. But he was a very responsible person and he works very professionally ”.
In fact, he recalled a meeting they had with the Generalitat's controller to explain "the digital revolution" that he wanted to carry out in the ILP and that he did not object to the contracting method. Nor after in 2014 when a report from the Intervention warned of minor irregularities. “We presented allegations and the intervener accepted them. She could have given the case that she had not accepted them, but she accepted them, ”she recalled.
In parallel, the Junts leader has defended the decision to hire Isaías Herrero, a computer scientist she met at a digital literature award that he won twice when Borràs was a member of the jury. “It has hurt me to see the level of degradation in which he has presented himself in that trial. He has presented himself as a mere computer scientist, when he was a digital creator, a digital artist”. In addition, she has denied that he wanted to make "a covert contract" to Isaías and that he awarded her the project "because he needed his experience."
Borràs has defended the excellent work of Herrero in the creation of the Lletres Catalanes portal and has regretted that the website is no longer active because that way it could be seen that the work that was done was "correct, legal and perfectly reasonable with the criteria that marks the administration ”, he has claimed. “I have always worked within the limits of legality and with some results. Not in the remotest of my nightmares did I think it could be investigated. The only reason why they produce certain actions of a judicial nature is because of my political ties. It's lawfare and political persecution."
