The suspended president of the Parliament, Laura Borrà s, has confirmed that she does not plan to resign from office as requested with more or less intensity by all the groups in the Chamber, except hers, after being sentenced to 4 years in prison and 13 years of special disqualification and he has charged again against the sentence that he has branded as political. In this sense, she has considered that the request for pardon from the State Government that includes the court ruling demonstrates the “political component” of it.
In an interview on RAC1, Borrà s has summoned the members of the Board, in particular ERC, who suspended her from her duties in July to reinstate her if they want to end the interim period at the head of Parliament that they now regret. “They caused the interim with an interpretation of the Parliament’s regulation that legally presents many problems,” lamented the also president of Junts, referring to article 25.4 of the regulation that served in July to suspend it. “With the sentence in hand, which says that there has been no enrichment or profit -in the article of the regulation the concept of lucrative corruption appears-, if they want to end the internment, they should immediately reinstate me from my functions”, Borrà s pointed out , who has also confirmed that he will seek his acquittal in European instances if he does not get it in Spain.
The independence leader, convicted of prevarication and documentary falsification, has branded the sentence as “aberration” and “judicial nonsense” and, in her opinion, supposes “the extent of how uncomfortable” it is. In this sense, she has indicated that the cause is political and proof of this is, according to her, the pardon requested by the judges who “believe that the sentence is very disproportionate and pass the buck 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 has insisted.
Especially critical has been the suspended president of the Catalan Chamber with the president of the TSJC, Jesús MarÃa Barientos, whom she unsuccessfully tried to challenge from the court that tried her and who has recalled that he was designated by the Supreme Court as not impartial as judge of independentistas, which forced the repetition of the trial to the Parliamentary Board presided over by Carme Forcadell. In this regard, in another interview on Catalunya Rà dio, Borrà s explained that when the former vice president of the Chamber Josep Costa was arrested he called her and she wanted to appear at the TSJC and the court security officer told her that the president had vetoed her, alleging that it was not welcome, which, he added, led the Bureau to express a formal complaint. “I have not had the right to an impartial judge,” Borrà s concluded.
Asked about the reaction to the sentence of the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, who yesterday separated the sentence from the repression of the independence movement and called on the Parliament to work to find a replacement for its president, Borrà s has shown herself “outraged with that independence movement that it collaborates with the State from which it wants to become independent and, on the other hand, runs over rights and freedoms that it claims for some but it works well for political rivals to park”. “I am outraged above all because it reduces the chances that the independence movement will achieve its goal. We should be together to work for independence and not take advantage of how the State tries to knock me down,” reproached the president of Junts, who has recognized that “she was prepared to fight against the State but not so that the independence movement would fall into the State’s traps and dedicate itself to harming itself”. “That makes the other side eat popcorn and clap their ears,” she added.
