The spokesperson for Junts x Catalunya in Congress, Miriam Nogueras, has called for the holding of a referendum and an amnesty that includes the former president of Parliament, Laura Borràs, convicted of rigging public contracts during her time at the head of the Institució de les Lletres Catalans.
In an interview with the Catalan News Agency (ACN), Nogueras maintains that it is the PSOE who “needs the votes” and who “must move” to facilitate the holding of a referendum in Catalonia.
Hours after the pact that has facilitated the election of Francina Armengol as president of the lower house, Nogueras claims that they are “the only party that nobody doubts which side of the table they are on”, in the face of, in his opinion, the strategy followed by Republicans so far. And that “this negotiation is completely unrelated to the investiture” and that her party “does not trust” and that “it is paid in advance.”
Now, in the next negotiation screen -the investiture-, from JxCat they “obviously” maintain the referendum and the amnesty law as conditions, because it is “what they have always said”. In this sense, Nogueras affirms that “everyone has to be very clear that this is not so that Pedro Sánchez’s PSOE can continue doing what it has done up to now, or there will be no investiture”.
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As for the amnesty law, the spokesperson points out that it has to cover “all the ‘lawfare’ that refers to what we understand by procés, to all the people affected by Spanish injustice.” And she makes it clear that “obviously” the president of the party, Laura Borràs, also has to be part of it, because she “is a victim of the ‘* lawfare.”
The TSJC, in the same sentence that sentenced Borràs to four and a half years in prison for the award of contracts to the ILC, proposed to the Spanish Government the partial pardon that would prevent his entry into prison.