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Sánchez, after the request for partial pardon for Borrás from the TSJC: "It is a flagrant case of prevarication"

He affirms that he chairs a coalition when asked about the conflict between his government partners.

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Sánchez, after the request for partial pardon for Borrás from the TSJC: "It is a flagrant case of prevarication"

He affirms that he chairs a coalition when asked about the conflict between his government partners

MADRID, 31 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, recalled today that the former president of the Catalan Parliament and president of Junts, Laura Borrás, has been sentenced for a "flagrant case of prevarication and misuse of public funds". He has said so when asked if the Government is going to meet the request of the sentencing court, the TSJ of Catalonia, to grant him a partial pardon to avoid going to prison.

The TSJC yesterday sentenced Laura Borrás to four and a half years in prison and 13 years of disqualification for dividing contracts to award them by hand to a friend when she directed the Institution of Catalan Letters (ILC) between 2013 and 2018. However, it raised a pardon so that he does not go to jail and that the sentence be reduced to no more than two years in order to avoid prison.

The sentence condemns her for the crimes of prevarication and documentary falsification and also imposes a fine of 36,080 euros for 18 minor contracts processed between 2013 and 2017, in addition to disqualification for three years from holding public office.

The President of the Government, who is in Beijing today after having met with Chinese President Xi Jinping, recalled, when asked if the Executive will comply with this request, that it is a "case of flagrant prevarication and misuse of public resources ".

However, he has indicated that it is not yet a final sentence because it will have to be raised to the Supreme Court and different instances of the Rule of Law will have to be pronounced before deliberating on a request for pardon in the Council of Ministers.

In any case, Pedro Sánchez wanted to make it clear that he is not speaking out, not because he has no position on the matter, but because he has to be respectful of the rule of law.

On the other hand, when asked if he presides over a tripartite government, given the internal division of Podemos --which has assured that it will not go to the presentation this weekend of Yolanda Díaz's Sumar coalition--, Pedro Sánchez has limited himself to specify that he presides over a coalition.