The Electoral Board provides the Parliament ten days to say if it withdraws the seat of Laura Borràs

The Central Electoral Board (JEC) has summoned the appearing president of the Parliament of Catalonia to speak inside ten days what choice she goes to undertake relating to the withdrawal or not of the seat of the suspended president Laura Borrás after having been sentenced for the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) to 4 and a half years in jail for awarding contracts by hand.

Point 4 of stated article recollects that the causes of ineligibility “are additionally causes of incompatibility” and stresses that the crime of administrative prevarication for which Borràs has been convicted is included in Title IX of the Penal Code devoted to crimes in opposition to the Administration public.

The JEC asks the primary vp and appearing president of the Parliament of Catalonia to inform the Central Electoral Board of selections, resolutions or another measures that this establishment might have adopted in relation to this matter inside ten working days, in addition to properly because the allegations that, if relevant, you want to make, so as to have the ability to decide on this situation

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The unhealthy information for Borràs has not stopped accumulating. In the final hours it has additionally been recognized that PSC, ERC and Comunes have reached an settlement to urgently approve a legislation that forestalls former presidents of Parliament convicted of corruption from receiving public salaries. . “We have an settlement to stop Laura Borràs and at the very least any president who has been convicted of corruption from receiving a public wage,” stated the spokesman for the Commons group, David Cid, who acknowledged that “it was time” to that the Parliament started to behave earlier than the “kidnapping” of Junts per Catalunya within the establishment.

“And it’s that after the refusal of Laura Borràs to resign after her sentence, what couldn’t occur is that the Parliament would sit idly by and that will additionally value every Catalan and in every Catalan lady cash out of pocket, ” argued the deputy. The Table and the Board of Spokespersons of the Parliament have agreed that the proposals to take away the pensions of the previous presidents of the chamber convicted of corruption will go to the plenary session that begins on May 2 and to not subsequent week and will likely be processed as a result of extraordinary urgency , however not by single studying.

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