He Parliament will not position itself for its suspended president, Laura Borrason the occasion of the start of the trial for his management at the head of the Institution of Catalan Letters (ILC), in which he faces six years in prison and 21 years of disqualification. The issue was not even addressed at the Table this Tuesday, according to sources present at the meeting. No declaration of support is planned, nor is there any parliamentary troupe until the doors of the TJSC next Friday.
The postconvergents they have not made any request to the Bureau and, at the moment, they do not plan to do so. Yes, they will express their support for Borràs during the parliamentary appearances this week. The president of the parliamentary group, Albert Batet, who expressed the party’s support for its leader, assured that they would be with her and asked for the utmost respect for her presumption of innocence. “We already know that she will not have a fair trial,” she snapped at a press conference.
Beyond his party, however, there will be no more support from the pro-independence caucus. Only the party of him, together, will call militants and supporters to demonstrate. At the moment, the sovereignist entities are silent, but neither CKDnot even CUP will attend the meeting. Neither does the Government. All of them consider that the origin of the case against Borràs has nothing to do with “political repression” and that it is “malpractice”.
In this sense, the Republican expressed this Monday marta vilalta and so has the cupaire in the last few hours Eulalia Reguant. In an interview on La 2-Ràdio 4, he assured that mixing things up does a “disservice” to the independence movement, although he did say that “most likely” the legal case has been amplified because of who he is.
On the other hand, Borràs, in an interview on TV-3, expressed that he sees ERC’s position as “coherent”, because he considers that in July they already “acted as a judge”, when they were removed from their duties in Parliament. A decision that he branded again as “arbitrary”. However, he described the attitude of his former associates as “sad and disappointing” and assured that she will be on the side of “all those who are retaliated against”, regardless of their ideology.
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At this point, the big question is who together will be, and who will not, in the concentration on Friday. Especially if you will attend Xavier Trias, candidate for mayor of Barcelona. Until now he has been reluctant to attend events that distance him from the moderate electorate, such as the demonstration against the Spanish-French summit in Barcelona. Borràs assures that Trias expressed his “explicit support” to him on Monday, but he has not assured him that he will go to the concentration. “He did not tell me until Friday, he did not tell me this, he gave me all the encouragement and that he is by my side,” he admitted on TV-3.
The suspended president of the chamber is accused of prevarication and documentary falsification. The prosecution asks six years in prison and 21 years of disqualificationin addition to a fine of 144,000 euros, for splitting 18 contracts to hand-pick projects to an acquaintance, Isaías Herrero, without having to bid on them.