In the same line as the Junts leaders during the last hours, Laura Borràs has insisted on the unity of the pro-independence parties in the face of the electoral campaign prior to the 12-M elections. “People don’t understand that we don’t work side by side,” said the president of the party during an interview at Cafè d’Idees.
In this same sense, Borràs has not ruled out supporting ERC so that the independence movement governs. “We’ve done it before,” he defended. If last weekend both Puigdemont and Aragonès reproached each other for the lack of unity, Junts now insists on “putting 1-O at the center to form an independence government” and has assured that it is “indispensable” to obtain a good result.
The party leader did not want to evaluate the possibility of reaching an agreement with the PSC after the elections, since according to Borràs, Junts “only thinks about pro-independence governments.” The former president of the Parliament believes that Illa “went to Madrid as a member of the PSC and returned to Catalonia as a member of the PSOE.”
Borràs has assessed the following Catalan elections as a decision between “an autonomous and resigned Catalonia” or a “plethoric” one. Furthermore, he has highlighted that Junts “does not present a candidate, it presents the president.”
Two weeks ago, Xavier Trias, former mayor and former candidate to revalidate the position for Junts, demanded that Puigdemont return to being the president of the party to the detriment of Borràs. Regarding these words from Trias, Borràs has assured that she does not feel “cornered” within his party, and has exhibited the unity within Junts, where “we are all Puigdemontistas.”
Furthermore, the president of Junts did not want to confirm whether or not she will benefit from the amnesty law. The former president of the Parliament was sentenced to four and a half years in prison and 13 years of disqualification for the splitting of contracts when Borràs directed the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes (ILC). Now, she leaves “in the hands of her lawyer” the decision of whether or not to apply for the amnesty law.
Finally, Borràs has avoided commenting on Junts’ complaint against the company that investigated whether there was harassment in his parliamentary group. The party leader has assured that she “will not comment on internal matters” and has assessed that she “promoted the harassment protocol in the Parliament.”
