The TSJC applies a partial pardon to Laura Borràs and commutes her prison sentence to two years

The Civil and Criminal Chamber of the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) has applied the partial pardon that the Council of Ministers approved on 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 falsification in an official document and as the instigator of a continuing crime of falsification in a commercial document when she was president of the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes (ILC). It also reduces the accessory penalty of special disqualification from exercising the right to vote to two years.

The partial pardon, promoted by the same court that convicted Borràs because it considered that the prison sentence was “disproportionate and excessive,” does not affect the fine and disqualification of nine years and one day for which these remain. The court establishes the condition that the pardoned convict does not commit an intentional crime again within a period of five years from July 29, 2026.

In an order, the court also gives the prosecutor and Borràs' defense ten days to rule in writing on 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 that weighs on the former leader of Junts.

Likewise, the Chamber gives three days for a possible appeal before this same Chamber, the filing of which – it warns – does not suspend the effectiveness of the execution.

More than a year ago, the TSJC promoted the grace measure 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 a product of lawfare and presented herself as a “political victim” in the midst of the process. However, the judicial matter against her was for prevarication and documentary falsification when she was president of the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes. Borràs benefited a friend of his with contracts from the entity he directed, which he chopped up to avoid having to put them out to tender.