Esquerra Republicana has put aside caution in recent weeks in everything related to the legal case of the President of the Parliament, Laura Borràs, who is one step away from sitting on the bench for the alleged splitting of contracts when he directed the Institution of the Catalan Letters. The formation had remained discreet and avoided commenting on the matter, but there is no longer a balance.
The president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, already said clearly yesterday that the cause is not related to the procés and 1-O, and the spokesman for his party in the Congress of Deputies, Gabriel Rufián, has finished the job . In an interview on Catalunya Ràdio, he assured that the case that affects the also president of Junts per Catalunya “has nothing to do” with the independence movement, since it is about a “fractionation of contracts for a friend who, in fact, Turns out he’s a drug dealer.”
The president of the Parliament is one step away from being tried for fraud, prevarication, falsehood in a commercial document and embezzlement for allegedly “abusing” her position at the head of the ILC, for the alleged award of 18 minor contracts to a friend.
“According to what accounts, it is best to go to the data, which is quite cold: we are talking about the splitting of a series of contracts for a friend who, in fact, turned out to be a drug trafficker. That has nothing to do with independence or with the political movement that I represent”, Rufián stated when asked if Borràs’ cause is considered “repression”.
In line with what the president said yesterday, who suggested that if any ERC leader found himself in the same legal situation, he would put the institution “ahead” and “steer clear” of the position until his case is resolved, Rufián stressed that ” everyone knows what ERC would do.” “We cannot be more lax with bad practices from outside than from within,” said the Republican spokesman in Congress, who has warned: “Whoever links this to the movement we represent (the independence movement) is doing him a disservice.”
After pointing out that “the presumption of innocence is a judicial principle and must be given by a judge”, Rufián has considered that the Borràs case and how it ends up being resolved politically “should not” provoke a crisis within the Government. “In a normal country, in a normal situation, it shouldn’t,” he has insisted.
Borràs has not made public statements about the latest positions of the Republicans. However, this morning he has posted one of his messages from him on Twitter with which he usually refers to current affairs. “There is nothing as fast as calumny; nothing easier to launch, easier to accept, or faster to spread”, he has published, paraphrasing Cicero.
