Francisco Camps makes the victory gesture at the event where he confirmed his intention to run for president of the Valencian People's Party.
10/07/2025
Escriptor
2 min

So that everything doesn't get so dramatic, here's the news of Francisco Camps' return to politics. Camps has announced that he wants to return to being president of the Valencian PP., but not president of the Generalitat Valenciana, because his return "is not against anyone" (but his poor relationship with Feijóo, Mazón and Zaplana, who was the mentor of the president of El Ventorro and of the deceased of the DANA, is well known). For younger readers, we clarify that Camps was president of the Generalitat Valenciana between 2003 and 2011, when he was forced to resign from office due to his involvement in the Gürtel scandal. Camps has spent fifteen years going from trial to trial, up to eleven, from which he has invariably emerged acquitted: of the Gürtel scandal and also of other scandals that involved him in the collection of illegal commissions, such as the Formula 1 and Nóos cases or the visit of the Pope (2010) to organize. events and issue some invoices).the Priest, because he is very devout, and surely thinks that so much accumulated absolution must have to do with the protection of some heavenly person, because he is also prone to egotism. The existence of a birth justice system, one of the black holes of Spanish democracy (along with, precisely, corruption).

Camps announced his return in a place backed by nostalgia: the Palau Alameda hotel in Valencia, the scene of so many electoral triumphs led by himself and by the former mayor of the city, the late Rita Calorete Barberá. To further accentuate the sense of time travel, the former president appeared flanked by Alfonso Rus and Carlos Fabra, two old men. bulldogs who represent the essence of yesteryear like no one else. Rus was mayor of Xàtiva and president of the Valencia Provincial Council and the Valencian People's Party (PP), a great deal of power that slipped from his grasp when a recording of him counting banknotes from an illegal commission surfaced. Fabra, for his part, was responsible for the construction of the Castellón ghost airport (an airport that had no flights for years), as well as for the phrase "Do you like Grandpa's airport?", aimed at a clean-up of his own, among other achievements of the corruption that took place from the late 1990s to the first decade and a half of the 21st century in the Valencian Community.

Next to these veterans, it is true that Mazón, Rovira and their troop of fascists look like a group of parvenusNow there was money to be distributed again (the 29 billion euros from the Endavant Plan, for reconstruction work following the destruction of the DANA), and therefore a desire to make himself available again. It remains to be seen whether Camps's "formal" reappearance is a B-money summer hit or if he has political clout going forward.

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