The Board of Parliament has refused to suspend the deputies Lluis Salvado Y Josep Maria Jovefrom ERC, who will go to trial for prevarication and embezzlement in relation to the preparations for 1-O, with the abstention of the PSC and the contrary vote of the rest of the parties represented in the highest body of the Chamber: CUP, ERC and Junts. It has been debated, at the request of Vox, whether the same article of the Parliament regulation by which the then president, Laura Borras, was stripped of its powers. An article, 25.4, which indicates that parliamentarians who are on trial for crimes related to corruption should be immediately suspended.
During the debate, the Junts representative, Aurora Madaula, voted against while stating that today’s decision shows, in her opinion, that the suspension of Borràs was a case of “political persecution” and recalled the debate of the Table that took place at the end of July in relation to the case of the suspended president of Parliament.
Finally, it was not necessary Together for Catalonia would raise the question. The extreme right has done it. But it was already known that neither Junts nor the parties were in favor of the work since they clearly distinguish the case of Laura Borras (who will go to trial in February for allegedly having chopped contracts when she was in charge of the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes) of the republican parliamentarians, whose actions have to do with the organization of the referendum. Only the PP, Ciutadans and Vox are in favor of suspending them but they do not have representation on the Table.
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Junts has therefore defended the non-application of the regulation. His representative at the table, Aurora Madaulawas in favor of opening the debate, as was Borras. However, Junts argues that the organization of 1-O cannot be considered a crime and that, therefore, activating 25.4 against Jové and Salvadó would contradict that position. In any case, they defend that the suspension should not have been applied to Borràs because they understand that his is a case of “‘lawfare'” for his independence ideology. Since then, the Parliament has been mired in an interim situation that the groups have not been able to unblock due to the refusal of both Borràs and Junts to resign and facilitate the election of a new presidency.
The ambiguity of the PSC
Of the parties that have representation on the Parliamentary Table, only the PSC He has been ambiguous at this time about the advisability of opening this debate and has finally abstained. Minutes before, the party’s spokeswoman, Alicia Romero, has put herself in profile: “What I think about this issue is indifferent, there may be different interpretations, what is important is what the Board thinks, which can take it to the commission of the statute of the deputy”. Socialist sources consider that, despite the fact that the nature of the case affecting the two Republican leaders is different from that of Borràs, it is necessary to analyze whether, in compliance with the regulation, the mechanism should be activated. The rest of the parties present at the Table are not in favor of the work, alleging that the case of the two deputies It has nothing to do with it with corruption crimes because Saved Y Jove they will be tried for the organization of a referendum, not for an issue such as the alleged fragmentation of Borràs’ contracts during the time he was in charge of the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes, a cause for which he will be tried as of 10 february.