Antoni Bassas' analysis: 'Borràs, crime and punishment for being an independence supporter'

Does the case of Laura Borràs have anything to do with the Trial? No. At least, not directly. Does the sentence that the Supreme Court has now confirmed have anything to do with the ideology of the convicted woman? Yes, of course. The Spanish justice system has made it easy for us to affirm this: almost all the judicial bodies that have decided on separatists have shown a bias of the last trench of the unity of Spain that makes it common sense to affirm that regarding a notorious separatist, such as Laura Borràs, it will be difficult for justice to act with the required impartiality.

Borràs was a candidate for the presidency of the Generalitat in 2021, finishing third with 20% of the votes. The winner, Salvador Illa, obtained 23%. Borràs could have been part of Pere Aragonès' government, but she played the card of being the president of the Parliament. She was a very popular politician among the independence movement, and she was a piece to be defused.

Borràs is sentenced by a final sentence for the crimes of prevarication and falsification of documents, and the Supreme Court. The sentence of 4 and a half years in prison is disproportionate, to the point that the High Court of Justice of Catalonia itself proposed in its ruling that the Spanish government grant him a partial pardon so that he would not go to prison. Taking into account that the pardon is a matter for Sánchez and that Sánchez depends parliamentarily on Junts, it would seem difficult for Borràs to go to prison, apart from the fact that there is the possibility of presenting an appeal to the Constitutional Court that could also suspend his imprisonment. But law is not an exact science, and even less so in Spain, when it comes to Catalan separatists.

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