• Politics The Parliament suspends President Laura Borràs for her judicial process for corruption

  • The consequences The replacement of Laura Borràs in Parliament puts the ERC and Junts government alliance at risk

One year after the municipal elections and with the ERC in clear advantage in all the polls, the formation that led the 1-O is plunged into an insoluble bloc struggle, after its president, Laura Borràs, has been suspended as president of the

Parlament

for his accusation of corruption, and when he is unable to find a candidate with guarantees to run for

Mayor of Barcelona

, ​​now that the era of Ada Colau seems to expire.

The uncertainty surrounding the legal situation in

Belgium

of Carles Puigdemont, who is losing prestige due to the distance between the JxCat bases, does not help either.

The current Junts can be defined as a kingdom of Taifas in which Borràs and Jordi Turull continue to dispute power even after signing the armistice that prevented them from dueling at the congress that made Puigdemont's departure official.

Borràs assumed the presidency of the party and Turull settled for the general secretariat, but knowing that the political career of the president of the Parliament was going to be exhausted by the legal case.

That moment has already arrived.

Although it is true that Junts continues to support Borràs despite the oral trial that he must face, his credit as a possible candidate in other elections is exhausted, after the rest of the independence movement has agreed that his is a case of mere corruption and there away from the front of the Catalan Chamber.

Minada also finds Borràs due to the shady episode in which his main supporter within the party has been involved, Vice President

Francesc de Dalmases

, who is blamed for having loudly pressured the deputy director of the TV3 program

FAQS

when he was in disagreement with the questions put to the President of Parliament in an interview broadcast on July 9.

Although Laura Borràs is supported, her legal situation weakens her leadership

Dalmases, who has had to resign as spokesperson for Junts in the parliamentary commission that controls the Catalan public media, is, together with

Aurora Madaula

, the main pillar of Borràs within the party, with which his fall from grace further undermines the figure of the president who should catapult the formation after the departure of Puigdemont.

The wily Turull bides his time after falling just short of touching power twice already.

After the departure of Artur Mas he was able to lead the post-convergence, but the now forgotten

Marta Pascal

was the favorite for the militancy.

And he could also become president of the Generalitat shortly before being imprisoned, but the CUP refused to support his candidacy.

Now, Turull has surrounded himself with a trusted team to take control of Junts in the event that Borràs ends up losing favor with the party's cadres.

To do this, the eternal converging plumber ensured the presence of support such as the Minister of the Economy,

Jaume Giró

, or the former Minister and current president of the Port of Barcelona,

​​Damià Calvet

.

All the former supporters of his predecessor in office, Jordi Sànchez, are also from Turull, given the manifest enmity between the former president of the ANC and Borràs.

Only the two souls of the party agree on the strategy they must undertake to dispute the hegemony of the independence movement against ERC, an objective that all the polls deny Junts for the moment.

JxCat does not find a guaranteed candidate for the Mayor's Office of Barcelona

Both Borràs and Turull consider that the return to the unilateral path is non-negotiable and that the boycott of the negotiating table between the Republicans and Sánchez is unquestionable, but Junts is still unable to specify how he intends to return to 2017: he refuses to set a date for a new referendum, he does not have the courage to leave the Government and force a redefinition of the separatist road map and, with this, he continues to burden those of Oriol Junqueras with reasons to defend bilateral dialogue as the only way to continue exploring progress towards Catalan «self-determination».

The election of the mayor of Barcelona appears as the most pressing duty for this two-headed Junts.

Borràs openly bets on

Jaume Alonso Cuevillas

, Puigdemont's lawyer, but another option emerges in the chamber, that of

Josep Rius

.

Rius occupies one of the vice-presidencies of Junts and is probably the figure that arouses the most consensus between the two blocks, in addition to having the total confidence of the fugitive, of whom he was chief of staff and whom he accompanied during his first years of flight.

After Elsa Artadi

left political life

, Rius emerged as a mayor with a remarkable degree of knowledge of the city, not in vain he was also Joaquim Forn's chief of staff, when the latter was

Xavier Trias

' first deputy mayor .

However, the demoscopy is crude.

The last barometer issued by Barcelona places Junts as the fourth force.

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