Francisco Camps is claimed. In the search for his political resurrection, the Valencian president between 2003 and 2011 hopes to gather about 1,500 PP militants in the Veles E Vents Valencia building, an icon of the América Cup and the times of the “great projects” in which the PP won with absolute majorities while the cases of corruption emerge. Camps, however, was acquitted last year by the National Court in the last of the Seven Parts Gürtel case. And since then, he asks for the word, he calls at the gates of his party and makes his way between the ignorance and the discomfort of his co -religionists in the power invoking the heat of the old guard, of militants who were councilors, mayors and diverse positions in his three absolute majorities and since 1995 in which the PP took the reins of the Consell from Eduardo Zaplana. He wants a new opportunity.
His small format meetings in more than a dozen populations have marked their way to the breakfast Saturday’s Mañanero, which will take place under the motto: “Great popular celebration 30 years of governments.” In this way, it also includes its former adversary, Eduardo Zaplana (sentenced to 10 years for corruption in the Warm case), with whom he was seen exchanging gestures of complicity in the street last month, as attesting a photograph published by the Levante Emv.
If the critical mass responds, Camps, 62, plans to make the leap and present his candidacy for the presidency of the party in the Valencian Community, which Carlos Mazón now plays, according to his surroundings. Aspiring again to the Generalitat is another song that seems very remote. But to achieve its main objective, the Ordinary Regional Congress must be convened for this summer that, however, is in the air. So much that its postponement is safely given. The popular dome does not want to add internal conflicts to the extreme political weakness of Carlos Mazón for his DANA management.
“We want a Congress to be done so that a leader from Murcia does not put us again. We are tired of imposing the leader. Internal democracy claim and a congress, which is what touches statutory, and that the bases and militancy speak,” explains Fernando Villalonga, who was the first Minister of Education and Culture with Zaplana and later, delegate of the arts in the City of Madrid Bottle.
The one who was an ambassador of Spain in Brazil refers to the election of Mazón by the former general secretary of the PP, the Murcian Teodoro García Egea, and by the former president, Pablo Casado, as a candidate to preside over the party in the Congress of 2021. “Paco Camps is a moral leader of the PP Absolute, that of the big projects, that of school maps … There have been no people with a lot of experience or militancy, ”says the diplomat in statements to this newspaper, who has tried to unsuccessfully contact Camps to gather their opinion.
Villalonga completely disconnects the mobilization of Camps, which is earlier, to the DANA of October 29 that caused 228 dead. And criticizes both the management of the central and the autonomous government. “This movement does not go against Mazón, but in favor of a democratization of the party in the Valencian Community,” he adds. In these months, Camps has pointed out to the government chaired by the socialist Pedro Sánchez as the person responsible.
In his last trial, the court concluded that “there is no evidence or indication” that the former president influence to be granted to one of the companies in the network some works of the stand of great projects of the 2009 Fitur Tourism Fair. The judges did condemned the main leaders of Gürtel, just as dozens of members of the governments of Zaplana and Camps and PP positions were sentenced in the ramifications of this corrupt network (such as the Pope’s visit in 2006) and in other cases already tried.
The Camps environment argues that Camps has also connected with young people, not only with the old guard, and the presence of new generations militants will be visible. “It will be an emotional act, in which people will be allowed to speak, which is what they want,” they point out. The former president of the Diputación de Castellón, Carlos Fabra (also convicted of corruption) or the former mayor of Alicante, Sonia Castedo, have been seen in the previous acts of Camps.
In the environment of the autonomous PP address, the movements of Camps bother, but they have importance and there are those who qualify as zombis politicians to some of its members. Sources from the current PPCV address point to this newspaper that “the match has nothing to do” with the “private” act of Saturday. “The only thing that can say is that it has always defended the honor of Camps that, after so many years of accusations, it has been shown that these were uncertain and, neither, or Ximo Puig or Monica Oltra have been able to apologize,” he says.
The National Directorate of the PP, meanwhile, has taken into account the movements of Camps to decide that it is not time to open the process to force a surrounding relief. Genoa feared that the Valencian former president stirred the internal waters in the event that Mazón had been asked to step back. The possibility of an internal division weighed for Alberto Núñez Feijóo to choose to wait. The popular dome rejects the claim of Camps that is held this summer the PP Congress in the Valencian Community. On the contrary, Genoa’s will is to postpone it, and in that he coincides with Mazón, because he does not interest one or others to open the succession melon. The Directorate of Feijóo thinks of the mayor of Valencia, María José Catalá, and in no case in Camps to happen to Mazón as a poster head to the next regional elections.
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