The Central Electoral Board (JEC) plans to transfer the folder relating to Laura Borràs, after her sentence to disqualification for the crimes of document falsification and prevarication in the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC), to the Board at the meeting tomorrow Thursday Barcelona Provincial Electoral Committee, which has already been established for the municipal elections on May 28.
Most likely, the sources consulted point out, is that the writings that various formations such as Vox, PP and Ciudadanos have addressed to the central electoral arbitrator so that he can rule on the situation of the president of Junts per Catalunya end up on the table of the provincial body, that in the case of former president Quim Torra, in 2019, he was the first to speak out. These sources point out that the jurisprudence supports that the provincial board be the one to pronounce whether it is already constituted, even if it is for electoral processes outside the Parliament of Catalonia.
After the end of March of the TSJC to the suspended president of the Catalan Chamber, due to irregularities in her time as director of the Institution of Catalan Letters (ILC), the electoral arbiter has the power to withdraw her deputy's credentials.
In the other two precedents that have occurred in the Parliament, in which there was a sentence of disqualification -although in both cases for disobedience and not for crimes related to corruption-, the administrative body has withdrawn the minutes from those convicted and has issued the credential of the next member on the list considering that there is a situation of "supervening ineligibility". If this script is met, the body will issue the credential of Antoni Castellà, who is the next member of the Junts en Barcelona list for the regional elections on February 14, 2021.
When the former Catalan president was disqualified in 2019 for not removing a banner from the Palau de la Generalitat about the pro-independence prisoners during the electoral period, the provincial board was also constituted, as is the case now. On the other hand, in the case of the former deputy of the CUP Pau Juvillà, who was sentenced at the end of 2021 for a ribbon hung in his office in La Paeria de Lleida during the electoral period, in a situation similar to that of Torra, his license was withdrawn. credential and only the central body pronounced – with Borràs as president of the Parliament – since there was no upcoming appointment with the polls on the calendar and the provincial body that must ensure the neutrality of the electoral processes was not operational.
In any case, in the case of Torra, the Provincial Electoral Board of Barcelona initially dismissed the writings of PP, Vox and Ciudadanos to withdraw the act. A few days later, the JEC indicated that the then president was losing the status of deputy and issued Ferran Mascarell's credentials. The Provincial Electoral Board of Barcelona ratified that criterion after a week and rejected the subsequent appeals.
With these wickers, it is most likely that it will be the electoral administrative body that will rule and end up ruling on the future of the JxCat leader.
The PSC registered a few days ago a modification of the Parliament's regulations to be able to evict Borràs from the institution, but this initiative will not reach the plenary session of the Catalan Chamber until the beginning of May and, as of today, waiting for what happens in the parliamentary process, does not have sufficient support.
