JuntsxCatalunya deputy Jaume Alonso Cuevillas has accused a part of his party, specifically the one that did not want to leave the Government, of turning the case of Francesc de Dalmases, who resigned yesterday as vice-president of the formation, into a case against the president Laura Borràs, who in her opinion is a “major hunting piece” also internally.
Some ministers “must digest” the departure of the Government, the also president of the Commission for the Statute of the Deputy of the Parliament has blurted out in La Ser Catalunya, who has anticipated that the Table of the Chamber will meet tomorrow, Thursday, to address the call for this commission to analyze the facts after the scandal over the pressure on a journalist in the program Preguntes Freqüents on TV3, which the lawyer Magda Oranich called “incorrect” in a report commissioned by the party’s leadership. The commission has to issue an opinion on whether or not Dalmases violated the institution’s code of conduct.
“It is not that they forced him to resign, it was he who wanted to resign, a gesture that honors him, so as not to continue to wear down Junts and the president (Borràs), because it is clear that this is not only an attack against Dalmases but against the president which is a piece of big game hunting”, highlighted Cuevillas, who is close to both politicians. “That seems so,” he pointed out, questioned whether Borràs is also a big game game internally, to add that within Junts “there are two souls despite the fact that we try to pretend that we do not see it.” “Those who formed part of the Government, whether as ministers or as intermediate positions, must digest the new situation,” he suggested.
Cuevillas has also announced that in the event that the Deputy Statute Commission finally imposed a sanction, it would be light (a fine of between 600 and 12,000 euros). “From the first day he recognized that he had a heated discussion, but not many things have been said,” explained the lawyer, who has considered that there are no arguments for him to be dismissed as a deputy.
Yesterday on TV3, the deputy explained that Junts will request a report from the Board to see “how to proceed” since, in his opinion, there are procedural doubts. “There are even doubts as to whether the Commission has the power to analyze conduct that occurred outside Parliament.” “We understand that since it is a disciplinary file, the guarantees of any sanctioning process must govern”, to which he stressed the need for the Table to clarify how to proceed beforehand.
Also the lawyer who made the report that sparked the controversy, Magda Oranich, has considered that Dalmases should not resign as deputy after leaving the vice presidency of the party and the CCMA commission, but has recognized that the case could have a longer journey. for the voices that have been raised in recent hours against the deputy for scenes similar to the one offered on TV3 with other deputies. “I think they want to because the screams were common,” said Oranich on TVE’s La 2, after indicating that she did not want to add the complaints of other deputies to her document to focus on the facts analyzed.
The lawyer has once again regretted the pressure she suffered before presenting the report, specifically from Borrás, and the attacks on her person once it was made public on Sunday. Oranich sees in the report “a wake-up call” and in the resignation of Dalmases, “a first step to recognize that he has not behaved well”, at the same time that he has valued that “now he does not do it anymore”, as they explain their sources. “He may have changed his behavior,” he has celebrated.
