The Civil and Criminal Chamber of the High Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) has applied the partial pardon that the Council of Ministers approved last July 28 to the former president of the Parliament of Catalonia Laura Borràs, by which her prison sentence of four years, six months, and one day is commuted to another of two years as responsible for a continued crime of forgery in an official document and as an instigator of a continued crime of forgery in a commercial document when she was president of the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes (ILC). It also reduces to two years the accessory penalty of special disqualification from exercising the right to passive suffrage.
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The partial pardon, promoted by the same chamber that convicted Borràs for considering that the prison sentence was “disproportionate and excessive,” does not affect the fine and disqualification of nine years and one day, so these remain. The court establishes the condition that the pardoned convict does not commit another intentional crime within five years from July 29, 2026.
In an order, the chamber also gives ten days to the prosecutor and Borràs’s defense to express in writing about the possibility of suspending the execution of the prison sentence since it is a sentence that does not exceed two years and is the only one weighing on the former Junts leader.
Likewise, the Chamber gives three days for a possible appeal before this same Chamber, whose filing – it warns – does not suspend the effectiveness of the ruling.
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More than a year ago, the TSJC promoted the measure of grace despite having sentenced her to four and a half years in prison, a sentence that was confirmed by the Supreme Court.
In June of last year, the Prosecutor’s Office delivered its report
against the pardon.
Borràs always defended that the case against her was
the product of lawfare and presented herself as a “political victim” in the midst of the effervescence of the procés. However, the judicial matter against her was for malfeasance and forgery
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in documents when she was president of the Institució de les
Lletres Catalanes. Borràs benefited a friend of hers with
contracts from the entity she led, which she split up to avoid
having to put them out to tender.
