Laura Borràs is the new president of Parlament
- Alongside lehendakari, the Bureau of the Basque Parliament has also been elected. It will have seven members, two from ERC, two from JxCat and two from the PSC. For the first time, a Cup Member will chair the table.
Laura Borràs has been a candidate for the presidency of JxCat in the last elections and, in her first speech, she has recognised that she has presented herself to the elections for the presidency of the government, but that she will drive the process of independence from the parliamentary office: “In democracy, the law depends on the citizens and not the other way round, the will of the citizens we represent is the only parliamentary limit.”
He has also made it clear that he will follow the trail of the former President of the Basque Parliament, Carme Forcadell, who is in prison. According to Vilaweb, Borràs has not pronounced himself on the way through the hitherto lehendakari, Roger Torrent (ERC), in the Upper Chamber. He recalled the imprisoned Catalan prisoners and in exile and stressed that this legislature “must be a turning point on the road to independence.”
Another milestone of the day was the offer of a Cup vote to JxCat, which corresponded to Lluís Puig, from the purple party. Puig, who was the Minister of Culture of the Government of Catalonia, is in exile in Brussels, where he currently resides. She has recently been elected a Member of JXCat, but the Basque Parliament’s Bureau of Age has not allowed her to take part in the vote of the Bureau and, as a gesture of solidarity, the Cup has offered her a vote.
Walk from a train station, two friends and a hug. This hug will be frozen until the next meeting. I'll come home, he'll stay there. There, too, will be free the painful feeling that injustice wants us to catch. Jesús Rodríguez (Santa Coloma de Gramenet, 1974) is a journalist,... [+]
