The main opposition groups have called on the Government groups to “solve” the “Borràs soap opera”. Catalunya en Comú and the PSC have turned their eyes to the ERC to act with "political courage", according to the commons, to replace the president of the Parliament, suspended from rights and duties as a deputy, by another person, and to do so before the 15 September, after the Diada, as the socialists demand.
The commons consider that the Republicans have "the key" to "solve" the Borràs situation: For this to happen, "ERC has to be activated, make a decision if it wants to open a new stage in Parliament", urged the spokesman Joan Menna.
For the purple formation, Borràs "should step aside from his responsibilities" in order to elect a new president of the Chamber. "We cannot afford to have a Parliament with an interim presidency," they warn. But given the refusal of the post-convergence leader, they urge the ERC to act with "political courage" to solve "the soap opera".
Those of Jéssica Albiach offer themselves as a partner to oust Borràs in a vote in Parliament that will allow him to unblock his replacement: "If ERC chooses that path, and not that of being complicit with fanaticism, they will have us by their side", he has promised Ore. And the offer is completed with an invitation to approve the new budgets of the Generalitat: "We will walk the path together, from the beginning, for expansive accounts that want social justice and not a tax haven", he encouraged.
From the PSC they urge the partners of the Government not to transfer "the constant fights they have in the Executive, to the Parliament". "We do not want to poke around or take political advantage, but rather normality returns to Parliament," said the socialist spokesperson Elia Tortolero. That is why they ask that the Govern parties be the ones to "find another person."
The Socialists assure that they do not consider another scenario than an agreement between ERC and Junts to replace Borràs, and although they warn that there are alternatives to the lack of agreement such as a vote in the Chamber that forces the substitution, they maintain prudence. “We have not valued it because we trust that they will find a solution”, but “there are articles to force”, the spokeswoman pointed out. “We need to recover the prestige of the Parliament”, she has insisted.
The PSC puts the focus on Aragonès before the Borràs case but also before the next budgets. "Mr. Aragonès has to choose if he wants country budgets with the maximum number of political groups or extreme ones", the spokeswoman has summoned. Reiterating the disposition of the socialists, Tortolero summoned the president: "Mr. Aragonès, let yourself be helped."
But ERC does not get out of the lane and points to its partner. The Republicans have once again placed the ball on the court of Junts in the Borràs case. Its spokesperson, Marta Vilalta, has reaffirmed that the Board's decision was the right one to safeguard the Parliament's prestige in the face of the personal situation of its president, who has left the institution in an interim situation by refusing to resign after having been suspended as a deputy. “What we consider would be better to guarantee the proper functioning of the Chamber would be for Junts to appoint another person for the duration of the suspension”, she has prescribed.
However, and in response to the political courage that the commons demand from the Republicans, Vilalta has summoned Junts to comply with the legislature agreement to appoint a person to replace Borràs as president, a function that the Republican Alba now performs on an interim basis. Verges. The Parliament must "be useful to the people", he has suggested, for which he has criticized the controversy surrounding the Borràs situation as a way of "making noise" that contributes to "distance institutions from citizenship".
Regarding the request for reconsideration of the suspension of Borràs raised by Junts to the Table, which will be resolved this Thursday, Vilalta has assured that they do not share the reasons that have led the Borràs party to present this request. "Many times it has been Junts' internal discrepancies that have ended up affecting governability," said the spokeswoman, who has not budged from suggesting that the former convergents "make a proposal on how to overcome this interim situation."
Meanwhile, Vilalta has announced, the first vice president will act "with the utmost responsibility and always putting the collective interests of individuals first." Even so, ERC has not set a deadline for Junts to appoint a new president of Parliament.
"It is not a situation sought by ERC. We have a stability and government pact with Junts that attributes the presidency of Parliament to this party and it is up to them to propose a way out of this situation, which is not positive," explained Vilalta, which has ruled out analogies between the disqualification of Quim Torra, who was temporarily replaced, but without symbolic attributions, by Pere Aragonès, and that of Borràs. In the first case, it was a "judicial interference by way of repression" for a crime of disobedience and in the other, it is an alleged crime related to corruption included in the Parliament's regulations, the spokeswoman insisted.
Ciudadanos, for its part, has spared no qualifications when judging the "entrenchment" of Borràs, which, according to the party's spokesman, Nacho Martín Blanco, "embarrasses the vast majority of Catalans." "Only a minority of hyperventilated maintain their support for a policy evicted by their problems with justice. Her victimhood no longer convinces even her own, but she threatens to take everything ahead, even her own party. Borràs is the quintessence of populism Peronist who is touring Europe", added the Catalan deputy, for whom what Junts should do is "assume reality and stop blocking the appointment of a new president of Parliament.
And the Catalan PP has also joined the pressure and has accused Borràs of continuing to "put his personal needs and aspirations before the prestige of the institutions." In this sense, the leader of the popular Catalans, Alejandro Fernández, has declared that the attitude of the president of Junts "is a clear example of bad politics".
