The suspended president of the Parliament, Laura Borrà s, has accused the first vice president of the Chamber, Alba Vergés, of violating her rights “deliberately”, “premeditated”, “unfairly” and “anti-democratically” after the Central Electoral Board (JEC ) yesterday gave the Republican ten days to decide on the seat of the Junts leader after her disqualification sentence, the first step to dispossess the independentista leader of the act of deputy.
Borrà s has attacked Vergés when responding to a message from a tweeter addressed to the republican calling on her to decide whose side she is if the “oppressor or the oppressed”. She has already violated my rights. Deliberately. deliberately. unfairly. Undemocratically. And if she has some conscience, she knows it. And the people too. In Igualada, especially” the president of Parliament wrote, referring to her suspension as president of the Chamber by the Board last July after the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) opened an oral trial against her for prevarication and documentary falsification when he directed the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes (ILC) in application of article 25.4 of the Parliament’s regulations.
A suspension that Borràs has always dismissed as unfair considering that her case is not one of corruption as there is neither profit nor harm to the administration, and for this she has wielded the same sentence that sentenced her to four and a half years in prison.
Vergés, to whom the resolution of the JEC is addressed, in which he was given ten days to communicate what resolutions the institution has adopted in relation to the Borrà s seat, warning that the consequences of the disqualification are automatic even if it is not included in the Parliament’s regulations, has not ruled on it.
However, I have already done so to the Minister for Climate Action and Rural Agenda, Teresa Jordà , who has insisted on considering that Borrà s should take “a step to the side” to preserve the prestige of the Catalan Chamber and has predicted that the Bureau of the Parliament “will make allegations” to the resolution of the JEC after questioning the competences of the body to remove a deputy and to “preserve the institution and the regulation of the Parliament which says that the sentence should be firm”.
In an interview on TVE’s La 2 and Rà dio 4, Jordà , however, did ask Laura Borrà s “to step aside”. “Just because they point you out, you cannot put the institution at risk,” insisted the minister, who stressed that ERC is “extremely willing” for Junts to occupy the presidency of Parliament if Borrà s ends up withdrawing his seat .
“Junts left the Government by his own decision, I don’t know if he would have to maintain this pact or not, but ERC is extremely willing for Junts to continue leading the presidency of the Parliament”, Jordà pointed out to defend that the presidency falls to a party independentista.
