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  • Political legacy The PP of Valencia seeks to close the "wound" and reconcile with the family of Rita Barberá in the middle of an internal battle

  • Internal battle The operation of the 'old' PP of Camps to regain its place in the party ... and that unearths past wars

The former president of the Generalitat Valenciana,

Francisco Camps

, is ready to make noise. The same day that

Carlos Mazón

has formalized his candidacy to choose to preside over the PP of the Valencian Community, Camps appeared at the Valencia City Council with a letter to urge the consistory to claim the money for the bankruptcy from the promoters of the PAI del Grao F1 circuit.

Camps has done so on the sidelines of course from the PP, taking the opportunity to tell journalists that he has "many possibilities not only to win the Mayor's Office of Valencia, but to do so with an absolute majority." A Mayor's Office, by the way, to which he will opt for what is still his party,

María José Catalá

, the current president in Valencia and spokesperson for the

popular

in the City Council ... and now number two in Mazón.

It is not the first time that Camps has released that he

would like to choose to be mayor of Valencia

, to succeed his close friend, the ill-fated Rita Barberá, with whose family he is now trying to reconcile precisely Catalá and, therefore, the PP who in his day reproved the former mayor when she was besieged by corruption cases.

But his emergence at the start of the renewal process in the Valencian PP is not by chance.

Among other things, because Camps and his environment are also behind the candidacy that aspires to challenge Mazón for the leadership of the PPCV.

It is that of the mayor of Ayora,

José Vicente Anaya

, promoted by the Popular Forum 2020 and that, in reality, has not sat well among the current leaders of the PP.

There are many voices in the PP that interpret that Camps' attempts to let himself be seen - and to want to - seek to

attract Genoa's attention

so that he is compensated for what he considers an injustice with his political career: the one he had to abandon for the legal cases that, for the moment, are now being filed.

But, in addition, the resurgence now of the so-called

camping

is also explained by the rejection that provokes among the old guard of the PP - with which the leadership of Isabel Bonig broke the moorings - the resurgence in turn of

Zaplanismo

.

Mazón is considered the political heir of the former president of the Generalitat Eduardo Zaplana, a political enemy at the bottom of Camps.

Therefore, the faithful that Camps still has see in the Mazón operation - also piloted by Genoa - an assault on the power of the PP by the Zaplanistas and, furthermore, from Alicante lands. The repetition of history, in short, and of past wars.

In the Catalá environment - which also has the confidence of Pablo Casado's national leadership - it is insisted that there is no concern about the steps that Camps can take, who certainly lacks any support from the party apparatus. Now, he insists: "If the PP proposed me to be a candidate for Mayor of Valencia, I would be delighted," he said this Friday, before arguing that he has "age and experience", since he has been deputy mayor and councilor and knows the city, its transport, its tourist character and "the character of modernity it should have".

"I imagine that now they will say no, now it is a mess and I have two causes ahead but I am convinced that with the passage of time it will be valued because I believe that I am a candidate who has many possibilities," he stressed.

And one last warning to sailors: "I would not do anything that could harm the PP" ... but he has been convinced that

the citizens who voted for Rita Barberá would vote for him

.

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PoliticsThe operation of the 'old' PP of Camps to regain its place in the party ... and that unearths past wars

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