Laura Borràs is not a gray politics. With her or against her. White or black. They were the colors of the president of Junts and her family when posing before the Parliament, and also -an unconscious dress code- of the party officials and deputies who accompanied her. With the sentence of four and a half years in jail and 13 years of disqualification diluting her aura, she Borràs lost her tone, she screamed to vindicate herself in life, although her companions staged the closest thing to a political burial. The week in Junts has gone from “Bienvenida Clara Ponsatí” to singing –inwardly– L’hora dels adéus de Borràs. It will not be by her own decision. "No. I will not resign."
Borràs once again strains the party when his future is at stake in the municipal elections. And he doesn't do it out of disaffection. Ponsati style. The MEP is closer to a fourth pro-independence space than to Junts and she does not hide it. Even so, the scenery for his fleeting passage through Barcelona was agreed with Carles Puigdemont and the post-convergent management. The objective was to "confront" the strategy of Junts and that of ERC. Ponsatí, arrested by the Mossos, and Meritxell Serret, tried the next day for disobedience after appearing voluntarily before the Supreme Court. ERC took refuge in discretion and quelled its discontent with discipline: "they will not find us in the quagmire of the confrontation between independentistas." With Borràs, things change. The proven facts of the sentence – falsehood and prevarication – are supervened for Junts and the “repression” flag adopts an ambiguous meaning that allows attacking the opponent.
Laura Borràs is "outraged with that independence movement that collaborates with the State from which it wants to become independent and for which it is doing very well that they separate their political rivals." The president of Junts fires at ERC and even asks that they reinstate her, but within her party executive there are not a few or a minority who consider that she should take the step to the side. The nuances come with the how: wait for the Electoral Board to do the job and send Parliament the credential of the deputy that should replace it (Antoni Castellà); or push for her to leave "alone", from the Parliament and from the party presidency: "It harms us", they certify.
For Borràs to take that step in the short term is a chimera. He flirts with disobedience, with turning Parliament into a private trench, with what allies? Jordi Turull, obsessed with recreating the post-convergent space, will not advance decisions and demands discretion. Our evil did not fly soroll. Except if you are Magda Oranich and you remind Borràs, once again, that the institutions come first. But at the executive meeting scheduled for Monday, the new scenario will be addressed without remedy. The majority defends that, if the theory of "supervening ineligibility" is consummated, Junts proposes a new candidate for the presidency of Parliament. When Quim Torra demanded that the position be left vacant, an indignant comment circulated in Junts: "He replaced not one, but three!: Puigdemont, Jordi Sánchez and Jordi Turull" and he became president.
Turull will prevent Borràs from blaming him for having abandoned her. The president has been paid by the party since she was suspended in Parliament last summer. Her problem is to keep her as an authorized voice of Junts in the electoral campaign, dragging the condemnation from rally to rally.
Without decisions, the campaign becomes complicated and the letter of exemplarity vanishes. Although Xavier Trias seems immune. His agenda is always full if the protagonist of the media chapter of the day is Borràs. The mayor, who already showed him the door days ago, transfers all his support "in the path that resources open." No political refuge. Neither Trias, nor former ministers, nor mayors on tour posed with Borràs at the gates of Parliament.
The indignation of Borràs and the impasse in Junts is a balm for ERC. The sentence facilitates the Republican argument. Fèlix Millet has died but the Mans Netes who walked through Catalonia uniting the 3% and CDC is still in force with a new version: "The events are very serious and have nothing to do with the repression" (Pere Aragonès), "It has been proven that there is a crime of corruption, if he were from ERC he would have resigned” (Marta Vilalta). The pro-independence majority vanished in the Borràs case. ERC waits for Turull's next step to find out if he will return and for what.
