Deputy Cristina Casol remains attached to the Junts per Catalunya parliamentary group, but it is not known for how long. The majority of her colleagues ask for her resignation through different channels, of the 32 that make up the post-convergent bench, there are 26 who ask for her resignation, the only mechanism for her to leave the seat. Some, in fact, have done so through a letter that they have sent to the general secretary of the party, Jordi Turull, and to the top leaders of the party in the institution, Albert Batet, president of the group, and Mònica Sales, parliamentary spokesperson, as Nació Digital has advanced and this medium has confirmed.
Sources consulted corroborate that the majority of the group, although the 26 have not signed the letter, want Casol, who is close to the president of JxCat, Laura Borràs, to resign after having reported gender-based harassment and discrimination within the group. parliamentary group, a complaint whose facts have not been proven by the external and independent investigation commissioned by the Chamber’s equality office after the deputy herself made the complaint.
This Tuesday, like every Tuesday in the plenary weeks, there was a meeting of the Junts group and the matter was addressed without making any decision. Casol herself was present, but she did not say anything about it, according to sources consulted, and it will be the executive who will decide what will happen to the deputy if she is expelled from the group.
Last week she was asked to resign after a meeting of the party’s permanent leadership and she was warned that if she did not take a step back she would be expelled and would remain as a non-attached deputy. However, Casol herself assured that she was not planning to resign and that she was willing to remain as a non-attached deputy.
Casol’s case is not the only one of its kind in Junts. Also the deputy Aurora Madaula, second secretary of the Board and vice president of the formation, who has been on leave since before Christmas, made a similar complaint, in her case publicly from the institution’s lectern at the ‘El Parlament de the Dones’.
However, both cases have been denied by the party leadership, both by Turull and by the vice president and spokesperson of the party, Josep Rius. The two leaders have attributed the complaints to political debate and political disagreement, as the majority of the parliamentary group has done in the past, and not to discriminatory behavior. It must be taken into account that both deputies are part of Borràs’ close circle, and there are those who frame all this in a political struggle with the sector most inclined to Turull within Junts and in an attempt to wear him down.
