"Because of my innocence, I do not want to withdraw from political life. There are those who have not yet understood it. I will not resign from my position as president of Parliament." In this way, Laura Borràs has come to the fore after the indictment of the Prosecutor's Office in the case investigated by the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia for the alleged splitting of contracts to favor a friend has emerged this Thursday when the also president de Junts directed the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes.
Borràs's words have not only been produced by the letter from the public prosecutor's office, they also come after he has received pressure to leave the presidency of the Catalan Chamber by the entire opposition and the rest of the pro-independence forces, who reject that we are facing a case of "repression" despite the fact that JxCat and Borràs frame the accusation in a case of lawfare.
Of the four crimes that were being investigated, two, fraud and embezzlement, have fallen, for which Borràs has lamented that his figure has already been associated with those two crimes that are associated with corruption and has affirmed that it is "unfair" and " hurtful" that their situation be assessed "omitting the context of repression".
For this reason, Borràs has pointed out that if it is finally suspended through article 25.4 of the Parliament's regulations, regarding causes of corruption, it will be due to a "political decision" of the other members of the Table, whom he has urged to act in awareness. In addition, he has reiterated that it is "an article that violates the presumption of innocence."
For his part, Jordi Turull, general secretary of JxCat, has appealed to the rest of the independence forces not to apply 25.4 and has closed ranks with the president of his party, to whom he has expressed the "granite support" of the leadership of the formation. Thus, the leader of the party and former Minister of the Presidency has reiterated his request for a "common front" that the rest of the pro-sovereignty forces reject.
Despite the fact that two crimes have been eliminated with the indictment of the TSJC Prosecutor's Office, in ERC they consider that the situation is the same and that Borràs should step aside to preserve the institution he presides over, the Parliament. "If he were from ERC, he would leave office," Republican sources reiterate. The CUP, for its part, has demanded that the JxCat leader step aside so as not to "mortgage" the independence movement.
Thus, everything suggests that if the case arises, when the order to open the oral trial is issued, which could be in the coming weeks or in September, the rest of the parliamentary groups will demand that the president of the Catalan Chamber be suspended while There is no resolution of your legal case. The public ministry, for the crimes of false documents and prevarication, has requested a six-year prison sentence and a 21-year disqualification from holding public office, which would also deprive Borràs of her civil servant position as a teacher. university, as she herself has denounced.
This Thursday the indictment of the prosecutors was made known shortly before the inauguration of the new Ombudsman, Esther Salinas, took place in the Parlament, and the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, was also present at the event. However, according to Borràs, they have not exchanged any words on the matter, despite the fact that the president already indicated in an interview on Monday that the cause of the president of Junts is "very different" from the other causes related to the procés.
