The Central Electoral Board (JEC) is preparing to remove the seat of the president of the Board, Laura Borràs, in the Parliament of Catalonia and to issue the credentials of Antoni Castellà, the next on the list of the pro-independence formation, as they have confirmed to Europa Press knowledgeable sources of the resolution.
With this decision and the withdrawal of Borràs’s seat, he is replaced as deputy and as president of the Parliament, as the PP, Vox and Ciudadanos had claimed.
The Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia sentenced Laura Borràs to four and a half years in prison and 13 years of disqualification for splitting contracts when she directed the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes (ILC).
The sentence condemned her for the crimes of prevarication and documentary falsification and the TSJC proposed a partial pardon that reduces the prison sentence to no more than two years, so that she would not have to go to jail.
In a resolution published on April 13, the JEC has already taken the first step to withdraw the seat of Borràs, the suspended president of the Catalan Parliament, having been convicted of a crime that makes her ineligible for the position.
In it, the arbitration body recalled the precedent of former Catalan president Quim Torra, who in 2021 also lost his seat after being disqualified by a court ruling. So, he granted Parliament ten days to report on the decisions he has made in this regard after the conviction of the Junts leader, whom he invited to present allegations.
Although the sentence is not yet final, the PP, Vox and Ciudadanos requested that the seat be withdrawn since a conviction for crimes against the public administration is “cause of supervening ineligibility”, as established by the Electoral Law (LOREG).
For his part, the lawyer for the president of Junts, Gonzalo Boye, regretted this Wednesday that several media outlets published this Wednesday night that the Central Electoral Board will notify Borràs on Thursday of his disqualification. “I see that the JEC uses the same notification system that has been used throughout the process against Laura Borràs… the press”, he ironized in a message on Twitter.
