The general secretary of Junts per Catalunya, Jordi Turull, has shown his support for the president of the formation, Laura Borràs, after she was sentenced to four and a half years in prison and 13 years of disqualification in the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia. As he pointed out at a press conference at the party headquarters, Borràs’ case is a case of “manual” lawfare and he has slammed the possibility of addressing her situation in the internal organs of the party. “We will not waste a second talking about Junts per Catalunya”, he stressed.
In Turull’s opinion, it is an “unfair sentence because the investigation and the trial have been unfair.” “We will not enter to assess paragraphs” of the resolution, Turull has pointed out, who has stressed that the “sentence is not final”. “We all have to respect all the procedures. The presumption of innocence there are people who skipped the class in which it was explained,” he added. In this sense, the also former Minister of the Presidency has considered that “the non-final sentence cannot have the effects that this sentence seeks”, especially when Borràs has already announced that he will resort to other judicial instances.
In any case, after the conviction, several groups have already demanded that the Central Electoral Board rule on the new situation of the leader, who has been suspended as a deputy and as president of the Chamber since last July. If the script established in the records of the deputies who have been disqualified – in both cases it was for disobedience – is fulfilled in this legislature and the previous one, the former president Quim Torra in 2020 and Pau Juvillà, former CUP paralementary, in 2022 , the JEC will withdraw the credential from Borràs and will issue that of the next candidate on the Junts list.
Even so, the leader of JxCat has avoided ruling on this scenario, without closing the door on proposing a new candidate for the presidency of the Catalan Chamber. “Upon reaching this stage, the party bodies will adopt the decisions that must be made,” Turull asserted, who also remarked that “right now the president of Parliament is Laura Borràs.”
Thus, Turull has avoided talking about what could happen in the Catalan Chamber. “We will not talk about substitutions until we see ourselves in a substitution scenario, and the decisions will be made in the party bodies”, reiterated the leader of the formation, who has also announced that they will activate “mechanisms so that there is no interference from the Electoral Board in Parliament”, alluding to the steps that were taken in the Juvillà case.
In ERC they have shown their willingness to re-elect a post-convergent parliamentarian as president of the Parliament, and have assured that they will not support the PSC in this matter. In JxCat, however, you don’t want to open that melon early.
For his part, Torra, who attended Borràs’ appearance at the gates of Parliament this afternoon, has demanded that the pro-independence groups leave the presidency of the House vacant and that no one occupy the seat of the pro-independence leader.
