After university Borràs worked in the
Menarini laboratories for seven years and in the
Almirall laboratories for two years. She was re-elected at the
1999,
2003,
2007 and
2011 local elections. She did not seek re-election at the
2015 local elections, giving way to Jordi Monrós as the CIU's leading candidate in L'Hospitalet de Llobrega. Borràs contested the
1995 regional election as a
Convergence and Union (CiU)
electoral alliance candidate in the
Province of Barcelona and was elected to the
Parliament of Catalonia. At the
1999 regional election Borràs was placed 33rd on the CiU's
list of candidates in Barcelona but the alliance only managed to win 31 seats in the province and as a result she failed to get re-elected. However, in February 2000, she was appointed to the Catalan Parliament to replace
Andreu Mas-Colell. At the
2003 regional election Borràs was placed 28th on the CiU's list of candidates in Barcelona but the alliance only managed to win 25 seats in the province and as a result she failed to get re-elected. However, in May 2005, she was appointed to the Catalan Parliament to replace Jaume Camps i Rovira. She was re-elected at the
2006,
2010 and
2012 regional elections. She was appointed
Minister of Governance and Institutional Relations for Catalonia in June 2015. For the
2015 regional election the CDC joined with
Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) and other pro-independence parties to form the
Junts pel Sí (JxSí) electoral alliance. Borràs was amongst several CDC MPs who failed to receive nomination at the election as the alliance sought to include
independent candidates on its lists. Borràs remained a member of the
Executive Council of Catalonia and January 2016 news
President Carles Puigdemont expanded her portfolio to include housing.
Catalonia independence crisis and imprisonment In June 2017
President of Catalonia Carles Puigdemont announced that a
referendum on Catalan independence would be held on 1 October 2017. The Catalan Parliament passed
legislation on 6 September 2017 authorising the referendum which would be binding and based on a simple majority without a minimum threshold. The following day
Constitutional Court of Spain suspended the legislation, blocking the referendum. The
Spanish government put into effect
Operation Anubis in order to disrupt the organisation of the referendum and arrested
Catalan government officials. Despite this the referendum went ahead though it was boycotted by
unionists and turnout was only 43%. 92% of those who voted supported independence. Around 900 people were injured as the
Spanish police used violence to try to prevent voting in the referendum. On 27 October 2017 the Catalan Parliament
declared independence in a vote boycotted by opposition MPs. Almost immediately the
Senate of Spain invoked article 155 of the constitution, dismissing Puigdemont and the
Catalan government and imposing
direct rule on Catalonia. The following day
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy dissolved the Catalan Parliament and called for fresh regional elections on 21 December 2017. On 30 October 2017
Spanish Attorney General José Manuel Maza laid charges of
rebellion,
sedition and misuse of public funds at the
Audiencia Nacional against Puigdemont, Borràs and other members of the Catalan government. The charges carry maximum sentences of 30, 15 and 6 years in prison respectively. Borràs, Puigdemont and four other Catalan ministers (
Dolors Bassa,
Antoni Comín,
Joaquim Forn and
Meritxell Serret) arrived in
Belgium on 30 October 2017. According to Spanish media the group had driven to
Marseille shortly after the charges were laid before the Audiencia Nacional and from there flown to
Brussels. Borrás then returned to Spain. On 2 November 2017 Audiencia Nacional judge
Carmen Lamela remanded in custody Borrás and seven other Catalan ministers (Bassa, Forn,
Oriol Junqueras, Carles Mundó,
Raül Romeva, Josep Rull and
Jordi Turull) as she considered them a flight risk. The jailed ministers were separated and sent to five different prisons: Bassa and Borrás to Alcalá, Junqueras and Forn to
Estremera, Mundó to
Aranjuez prison, Romeva and Turull to
Valdemoro and Rull to
Navalcarnero. A ninth minister,
Santi Vila, was freed on
bail as he had resigned from the government the day before the declaration of independence, but had to spend a night in Estremera prison whilst his lawyers secured his €50,000 bail. According to their lawyer
Jaume Alonso-Cuevillas, the ministers were mistreated whilst being transported to prison. They were allegedly handcuffed behind their backs without seat belts in a van going very fast, forced to listen to the
Spanish national anthem on a loop and threatened by their guards. Mundo allegedly suffered injuries due to the handcuffs and two ministers were allegedly forced to strip to prevent them carrying anything into prison. On 1 December 2017 the eight jailed ministers and two jailed independence activists -
Jordi Cuixart and
Jordi Sànchez i Picanyol - appeared before
Supreme Court judge Pablo Llarena to request bail while they await trial. They renounced the declaration of independence, pledged support for the imposition of direct rule and agreed to work within the law. On 4 December 2017 Llarena released, after 32 days in prison, six of the ministers (Bassa, Borrás, Mundó, Romeva, Rull and Turull) on bail of €100,000 but ordered that their passports be confiscated. However, Forn and Junqueras, together with Cuixart and Sànchez, were refused bail. After a four-month judicial investigation into the referendum and declaration of independence Supreme Court judge Pablo Llarena issued a 70-page ruling on 23 March 2018 in which he ordered that 25 of the 28 Catalan politicians and activists under investigation be tried for rebellion, embezzlement or disobedience. Borràs was charged with disobeying an order of the Constitutional Court (article 410 of the criminal code) and embezzlement. The judge also ordered 14 of the accused, including Borràs, to collectively pay €2.1 million to cover the costs of the referendum and judicial investigation. The trial began on 12 February 2019 and ended and was remitted to decision on 12 June 2019. On 14 October 2019, Borràs was sentenced to a year and 8 months of disqualification and a fine of €60,000 for disobedience. ==Personal life==