Laura Borràs leaves the presidency of Junts without reproaches, at least public, against the sector that has displaced her and her supporters. The former president of the Parliament has implied that her departure from the leadership is voluntary, something that has sounded more like an acceptance of defeat, and has taken advantage of her speech to show total harmony with Carles Puigdemont, on whom it will depend to maintain a position at Junts in the next four years.
“I never wanted to replace the president,” Borràs assured, because “leadership is exercised beyond the position.” As explained, she agreed to occupy the presidency of the party in 2022, always in accordance with the will of the former president of the Government. “I have made all the necessary resignations that Puigdemont has asked of me,” she assured with a bitter point, and then assured that she is not taking “a step to the side” but that all the steps have been taken “at the side of Puigdemont.”
Borràs’s farewell speech comes after, over the last two years, the sector led by Jordi Turull has been distancing the former president from the real decision-making centers of the party. Isolated and with dwindling support, Borràs had to see in the summer of 2023 how Puigdemont takes the reins of the party to pilot the negotiation for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez.
Finally, the congress held by Junts in Calella this weekend will formalize the departure of Borràs and his followers, of whom there will be no one left in the leadership, at the same time that Puigdemont regains the position of president that he abandoned two years ago. Figures of his strictest confidence will rise alongside him, such as Míriam Nogueras, Toni Castellà, Josep Rius and Mònica Sales.
“Many people ask me how I feel. I want to feel more free,” said Borràs, who defended that the new position he will occupy at the head of the party’s foundation answers the question of where he can be most useful now. “Presiding Junts has not been easy at all,” he said.
Borràs has also issued several warnings. One towards his party, whom he has demanded not to fall into the “temptation of wanting to silence the internal discrepancy” because that would make them “age very quickly.”
But he has also made an observation that goes beyond his training and addresses the independence movement as a whole. “I have observed with sadness in the independence bloc how all kinds of susceptibilities and reproaches were put into motion. It seems that we are our worst enemy,” said Borràs, who has called for these confrontations to be overcome.
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