The Central Electoral Board (JEC) has given a period of ten working days to the Parliament of Catalonia, specifically to the first vice president and acting president of the Chamber, the republican Alba Vergés, to communicate what resolutions the institution has adopted in relation to to the seat of Laura Borràs after being sentenced to disqualification for a crime of prevarication and another for document falsification. It also provides the opportunity to submit claims.
The administrative body has studied this Thursday the writings that Vox, PP and Ciudadanos raised to have the deputy credential removed from the president of Junts per Catalunya and suspended president of the Chamber after being sentenced to four and a half years in prison and 13 of disqualification issued by the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia.
In this case, the JEC has followed the same script that it used with the former deputy of the CUP Pau Juvillà in December 2021 and asks the Parliament for explanations and gives it room to present allegations if it considers it appropriate. At first, the members of the administrative body were inclined to send the folder relating to Borràs to the provincial body, the Provincial Electoral Board of Barcelona, already constituted by the municipal elections next May, but finally it will be the central body that the file of the Junts leader remains.
The jurisprudence that established the disqualification of former president Quim Torra in the previous legislature and the subsequent appeals that were presented in the Supreme Court indicates that it is the responsibility of the Parliament itself to withdraw a seat with a non-firm sentence, although, in case of "inactivity" of the Chamber or for "any other reason", the electoral referee can carry out the process, as, in fact, he already did with Torra himself and with Juvillà, both sentenced to disqualification for a crime of disobedience.
