New hot potato and old kick-forward strategy. The Parliament seems installed in ineffectiveness and the Table adds another file to resolve to those that it already accumulates - the allowances of the deputies, the privileged licenses due to the age of the officials when they turn 60 years old or the legal scope of the delegated vote from Belgium of the former Minister Lluís Puig. Now it is about the salaries of the six advisers of Laura Borràs, who continue to receive despite the fact that the president of Junts has been suspended as a deputy and has not held the presidency of the Parliament since July 28.
The first vice-president, Alba Vergés, who acts as acting president of the Chamber while Junts does not designate Borràs's successor, has given herself some time to be able to negotiate with those involved and solve this "unresolved" situation of legal limbo in which are found, since there is no jurisprudence on how to act with the advisors of a position when it is suspended from duties and rights but its dismissal does not occur.
Thus, the Table has rejected the brief presented by Ciudadanos in which the group chaired by Carlos Carrizosa requested the dismissal of Borràs's six advisers, since this dismissal, parliamentary sources have argued, can only occur if, in turn, produces that of the person to whom the trusted collaborators are assigned, something that has not happened in the case of the President of the Parliament, who has been suspended as a deputy but has not ceased.
According to parliamentary sources, these six parliamentary advisers are "in a situation that nobody wants", which has "political connotations", referring to the possible difficulties that a solution not agreed between Junts and ERC could bring to the Government, for which Vergés He has preferred to give himself a margin for negotiation, which, for the moment, will take place without deadlines and with the "confidence" of the other groups represented in the governing body of the Chamber. "No decision has been made yet because the matter deserves careful treatment and must be dealt with calmly," parliamentary sources have indicated.
For his part, Carrizosa explained at a press conference that Ciudadanos will request that the Board's refusal of his request for the dismissal of Borràs's collaborators be reconsidered, since it is "unheard of" that the advisers "continue charging" when the leader of Junts is no longer president. The advisors' remuneration ranges from 3,429 euros per month to 6,306 euros. In total, they add up to 26,000 euros per month from the Parliament's budget. Their functions, once Borràs has been suspended, are not clear and Vergés will have to decide whether to assign them a specific job or dispense with his services.
