The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has considered after the conviction of the suspended president of Parliament, Laura Borrà s, that hers is “a flagrant case of prevarication and misuse of public resources”, which is interpreted as a slamming of the door from the head of the Executive to the pardon that the sentencing court itself requested in its ruling in which it sentenced the leader of JuntsxCat to 4 years in prison and 13 of special disqualification.
“It is important to remember that we are talking about a flagrant case of prevarication and misuse of public resources,” Sánchez replied at a press conference at the Spanish embassy in Beijing after meeting with the Chinese president, Ji Xinping, asked if He was willing to grant Borrà s a measure of grace as requested by the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia in its sentence.
However, the Chief Executive wanted to be prudent and respectful of the procedural times and recalled that “it is not a final sentence”. “I understand that it will have to be raised to the Supreme Court and then different judicial instances will have to be pronounced and finally it would have to be the subject of discussion in the Council of Ministers,” warned the President of the Government.
Sánchez did not want to be more specific regarding this issue “not because he has no position”, as he has said, “but because I have to be respectful of the procedure that is established in our rule of law”.
The Catalan High Court yesterday sentenced Borràs to four and a half years in prison and 13 years of disqualification for the crimes of document falsification and prevarication for irregularities committed at the head of the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes, between 2013 and 2017. The judges without However, they proposed to the Government, which is the one who has the power to grant it, that it apply a partial pardon to prevent him from going to prison, on the understanding that the sentence imposed in the Penal Code is disproportionate with respect to the proven facts.
In this regard, Borrà s herself has considered this morning that precisely the request for pardon shows that her cause is political. According to her, the judges “believe that the sentence is very disproportionate and pass the ball to the government of the Spanish State.” “If there is not a component of a political nature here, I don’t know when we will see it,” she insisted.
