The ‘president’ is satisfied with the loyalty of the ‘consellers’ of Junts
The ‘president’, Pere Aragonès, has warned that a “interim have a duration very long” at the head of the presidency of Parliament “is not good”. That is why he considers that “the best way” to avoid it is “the election of a new presidencyThis was stated in an interview with the Agència Catalana de Notícies (ACN). The decision could be reversed if the suspended president of the chamber, Laura Borras, She ended up being acquitted in the trial for the alleged splitting of contracts when she directed the Institució de las Lletres Catalanes (ILC). On the other hand, the head of the Generalitat has assured that together i knew before that Borràs was brought to trial that ERC would ask to suspend her if she did not withdraw.
The head of the Executiu has not spoken to Borràs again once she has been suspended. In fact, the last time she spoke was in the last plenary session, the week before the Board’s decision to apply article 24.5 of the regulation to her. Aragonese, who is also the ERC national coordinator, has maintained that the best thing that could have happened is that Borràs decided to leave ‘proprietary’, “to protect the institution and try to leave its legal defense as clean as possible.” “But in the end there is a regulation and the regulation must be applied“, has said.
It has also ensured that tboth Borràs and JxCat knew the decision that the Republicans would take at the Table before the TSJC sent Borràs to trial. “We had been talking, and we had insistently requested that 25.2 be applied – in which the suspension is requested by the affected deputy himself. If not, [dijimos que] we would request the application of 25.4, because the regulation must be applied”, he argued. This section establishes that the Table “must agree to the suspension of parliamentary rights and duties immediately“once the act of opening the oral trial is final in cases of accusation for crimes related to corruption.
At the beginning of the week, JxCat asked the Board to reconsider the agreement on the suspension and they point out that this request will serve to “exhaust all the administrative routes” before open the judicial route in Europe. “They make the decisions they consider appropriate, and we respect that,” Aragonés limited himself to saying. ERC has already advanced that its members in the Table –Alba Vergés and Rubén Wagensberg- will be “coherent” with the decision to suspend Borràs.
But the ‘president’ does not see well that the institutions are “in a situation of forced interim”. He sees “essential” that JxCat, to comply with the agreement between the two parties according to which the parliamentary presidency corresponds to those of Jordi Turull, propose “a mechanism so that the leadership of the Parliament continues to be exercised by a deputy from his party”.
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“The best way to avoid this interim is the election of a new presidency of the Parliament. And that, in any case, if after the trial Laura Borràs is acquitted, that I can return it“, he suggested. “ERC has no interest in having the presidency of the chamber through a substitution in the face of these unwanted circumstances,” he said, although he has guaranteed that they will not leave the neglected institution.
As a result of the Borràs case, Aragonès has made an appeal to abandon partisan squabbles, but “if someone considers that they must make a decision” about continuity in the Government -as some sectors of Junts have proposed-, “let them make it”. The president of the Generalitat has said that all of his directors have his confidence and that, therefore, there is no no need to make changes in the composition of the executive. In fact, asked if he considers that JxCat has always acted with loyalty, Aragonès has replied that “if he believed that it had not been so”, he would have made decisions regarding the continuity of the Executive. After the change in the leadership of JxCat, now with Borràs as president and Turull as general secretary, Aragonès considers that dialogue with the party “continues to be useful”.