![]() As a result, Borràs stepped down as the president of the parliament on July 28.īorràs is accused of fraudulently selecting a supplier for services worth €330,442, as well as prevarication, administrative fraud and falsifying documents. ![]() The parliament bylaws mandate a suspension of all members under formal judicial investigation. After her indictment for corruption allegations, she was suspended from the Catalan Parliament in July, 2022. She was elected President of the Parliament of Catalonia on 12 March 2021. In November 2020 she ran in the primaries of Junts per Catalunya to run for the Presidency of the Generalitat in the future elections to the Parliament of Catalonia on February 14, 2021, in which she was elected. She is a member of the National Call for the Republic (Crida Nacional per la República)'s political council. She contested the 2019 general election as a JxCat candidate in the Province of Barcelona and was elected to the Congress of Deputies. In March 2019 it was announced that Borràs would be stepping down as Minister of Culture in order to contest the general election. She was sworn in on 2 June 2018 at the Palau de la Generalitat de Catalunya. Borràs was to be Minister of Culture in the new government. Faced with this opposition Torra announced a new government on without the jailed/exiled politicians. ![]() ![]() However, the Spanish government condemned the inclusion of jailed/exiled politicians in the government as provocative and refused to approve Torra's appointments or to revoke direct rule. On newly elected President Quim Torra nominated a new government in which Lluís Puig, who was living in exile, was to be Minister of Culture. At the election Catalan secessionists retained a slim majority in the Catalan Parliament. īorràs and other members of the Catalan government on 2 June 2018īorràs contested the 2017 regional election as an independent c (JuntsxCat) electoral alliance candidate in the Province of Barcelona and was elected to the Parliament of Catalonia. Borràs was director of the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes, an agency that promotes the work of Catalan authors, from January 2013 to January 2018. She was also in charge of the celebration of Caterina Albert (Víctor Català) (2016) and Montserrat Abelló i Soler (2018). She helped design the website celebrating the 2013 centenary of Salvador Espriu. lí Artís-Gener (Tísner) organised by the Generalitat de Catalunya and City of Barcelona.īorràs was in charge of the 2012 centenary celebrations of Joan Sales i Vallès, Pere Calders and Avel She has been a jury member for the Sant Jordi Prize, the Ramon Llull Prize and the Catalan Letters Prize. īorràs is a member of the Electronic Literature Organization's International Literary Advisory Board, a member and lecturer of the European Studies Doctorate Program in Literary Interzones, Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate ( University of Bergamo) and the Erasmus Intensive Program ( University of Paris 8). She was a visiting professor at Kingston University from 2010 to 2012. Borràs was also professor of humanities and philology studies at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) from 19 and professor of languages and cultures from 2007 to 2009. She was the university's academic director of the master's degree in literature in the digital era. She was a lecturer in the university's Department of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature from 1998 to 2013. Career īorràs joined UB in 1995 as an associate lecturer in the Department of Romance. She received a European doctorate in 1997 and a special Ph.D. She received a degree in Catalan philology (1993) and a doctorate in Romance philology (1997) from the University of Barcelona (UB). She was a member of the Congress of Deputies between May 2019 and March 2021.īorràs was born on 5 October 1970 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Between June 2018 and March 2019 she was the Minister of Culture of Catalonia. Between 20 she was director of the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes.īorràs was a member of Parliament of Catalonia from January 2018 to May 2019 for the pro- independence Together for Catalonia electoral alliance. She taught at UB and the Open University of Catalonia. īorn in 1970 in Spain in the city of Barcelona, Borràs studied Catalan philology at the University of Barcelona (UB) before becoming an academic. Laura Borràs i Castanyer (born 5 October 1970) is a Catalan philologist, academic and politician from Spain who was the President of the Parliament of Catalonia until her suspension as member of the Parliament of Catalonia under allegations of corruption.
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