Barcelona (EFE) busy. We have other more important things to do than go to Madrid”.
After returning to Catalonia by surprise and being arrested by the Mossos d’Esquadra, the duty judge in Barcelona released Ponsatí last Tuesday, after the Supreme Court agreed, who summoned her to appear on April 24 with the warning that she will be arrested again if she does not show up.
Speaking to Catalunya Ràdio, Ponsatí said this Friday that she does not yet know if she will appear before the Supreme Court because she must “evaluate” it with her lawyer and “make a decision”, although “right now” she is “very little inclined” to go to Madrid.
The former minister, who has returned to Barcelona once again and has offered the interview from the Catalunya Ràdio studios, has said that she feels “happy to be home”.
Regarding his unexpected return on Tuesday, he explained that he decided to cross the French-Spanish border by car -with his assistant Jordi Graupera at the wheel-, and not by plane, to ensure that he could “step on the streets of Barcelona” before his eventual arrest.
She suspected that they would “wait for the next day” to arrest her, when there was no press around her, but they decided to arrest her in the heart of Barcelona, at the end of her press conference, when she was surrounded by journalists, which gave her some images that They “help show that this is a breach” of her parliamentary immunity as an MEP.
On the other hand, the current Minister of Foreign Action, Meritxell Serret, has been reaffirmed in her “political, not personal criticism”, because when she returned to Spain voluntarily appearing before the Supreme Court, she gave Judge Pablo Llarena “acknowledgment” that This case is within your “competence”.
After the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) sentenced the president of JxCat, Laura Borràs, to four and a half years in prison for handing out contracts in the Institution of Catalan Letters, Ponsatí called it a “scandal absolute” is the sentence.
In his opinion, it is a “very clear case of political persecution” that “will go down in the history of ‘lawfare'” and in which there has been a “will to politically annihilate” Borràs.
In his opinion, it is “not at all” a case of political corruption and whoever says otherwise “commits a baseness”, he said.
Ponsatí, who is not a member of JxCat although she does work as an independent MEP of this party, has distanced herself from the Junts candidate for mayor of Barcelona, Xavier Trias, who these days has avoided supporting her on her return to Catalonia.
Regarding the municipal elections in May, she has said that “perhaps” she will not vote because “right now there is no candidate” who convinces her, and Trias “neither”.
