The former president of the Valenciana Francisco camp is immersed in the race to regain the Popular Party’s leadership in the Valencian region, and with a meeting scheduled for December 4 next year with PP members and sympathizers, he is not wasting every opportunity to speak publicly to correct his position and call for a regional congress of the party. The last occasion took place this Monday at Antena 3, Espejo Público’s space directed by Susana Griso.
The former national leader has admitted that he wants to lead the PPCV again in order to “reinvigorate” it, repeating the mantra he has been advocating of late: restoring a “supermajority” for the 2027 local elections (Mr. Camps won an absolute majority three times in the early part of this century, and won three times before resigning after being sued and having the jury removed from acquittal). Regarding who should head the PP list for possible elections if there is no agreement between the People’s Party and Vox to appoint a president by 2027, Camps asserted, “I think if there is an election, there will be a primary to choose the candidate.”
“I would like to have the opportunity to lead the party again and from there prepare for the local and regional elections in 2027,” Camps reiterated, but also reiterated that the party needs to “regain all the power it had at a certain point” in Spain, stressing that for that “in the case of the Valencian community we need to become the center of the region again.”
The former president said he was confident that the regional conventions he had been demanding for months would be held in the spring, and that “it would be good to take the next steps to prepare both local and regional campaigns.”
Camps was also asked about a survey showing that 43% of PP voters in the Valencia region think their time has already passed, and declared it “not bad” because “the other 60% don’t think so.”
In this sense, he recalled that for 15 years he had been in a “very complex” personal situation and had been embroiled in numerous court cases and had come out unscathed, during which time he had not held any organizational leadership or public position. Nevertheless, “more than half of PP voters continue to believe that I have a future opportunity not only to unite the party’s efforts, but also to return to the People’s Party the absolute majority it won in 2003, 2007 and 2011,” because “the voters who left us must return to the People’s Party.”
As for whether he had discussed this idea with PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijó, who announced his intention to return to the front on May 29 after the final judicial acquittal, he recalled that his reply was “we will discuss it”.
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