The president of Junts per Catalunya, Laura Borrashas requested that the amnesty be applied to her with the argument that her profile is “intensely pro-independence” and that the acts for which she was convicted were carried out during a “purely pro-independence government.” Borràs was convicted of splitting contracts to benefit a friend during his time at the head of the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes (ILC), facts that hardly fit into the measure of grace approved by the Government. His lawyer, however, has tried and, in his letter addressed to the Supreme Court, tries to link Borràs’ case to the independence process, as when he says that the mission of the ILC is to promote Catalan and that “the language is one of the pillars on which the processes.
The former president of the Parliament, who this weekend, at the party congress, will lose his position at the top of Juntswas sentenced to four and a half years in prison for prevarication and falsifying documents. These crimes are linked to corruption and have nothing to do with the 1-O independence referendum. In his writing, Boye recalls that the ruling recognized that there was no “personal enrichment” or “loss to the public coffers,” since his friend Isaías H. actually did the work he was asked to do. As director of the ILC, Borràs split up contracts by value so she could hand them over to her friend.
In addition to the prison sentence, She was sentenced to 13 years of disqualification and to pay a fine. The Junts leader appealed the sentence to the Supreme Court and has now decided to play the amnesty card, according to the newspaper. Ara. The letter recalls that Borràs served as director of the ILC “within the framework of a government with a clearly processist vocation.” The lawyer adds that the criminal process “intensified” as it assumed “more visibility and political significance” and that it did so “with an intensely pro-independence profile.”
Boye recalls that the amnesty law provides, among other things, for criminally pardoning acts that have the objective of “disseminating the independence project.” And he considers that Borràs’ activity as director of the ILC can fit into that definition since “language is one of the pillars on which this political project is sustained.”
