Francisco Camps

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Francisco Enrique Camps Ortiz (born August 28, 1962 in Valencia ) is a Spanish politician of the conservative Partido Popular (PP) and was Prime Minister of the Region of Valencia from 2003 to 2011 .

Francisco Camps 2008

Life

Camps studied law at the University of Valencia and in 1982 joined the Alianza Popular , the predecessor party of the PP. From 1991 to 1996 he was a member of the municipal government of Valencia, where he headed the Valencian Transport Authority. In the Spanish parliamentary elections in 1996 he won a seat in the Spanish Chamber of Deputies and became State Secretary for Territorial Administration in the first cabinet under José María Aznar . In February 1997, however, he resigned his mandate to become Minister for Culture and Education in the regional government under Eduardo Zaplana in Valencia . He held this office until 1999. In the Spanish parliamentary elections in 2000 , he was re-elected to the House of Representatives, of which he became vice-president. However, he resigned prematurely in 2002 to become a member of the Valencian regional government. After Eduardo Zaplana resigned as Valencian Prime Minister to become a minister in the Spanish government, Camps ran as the top candidate of the PP in the Valencian regional elections in 2003 and won an absolute majority for his party. In July 2003 he was elected Prime Minister, in 2007 and 2011 he was able to defend the office and increase his party's number of seats in the regional parliament. In 2004 he was also elected chairman of the Valencian regional association of his party. On July 20, 2011, he announced his resignation as prime minister and chairman of the regional PP because of the belt affair.

Belt affair

In March 2009, the investigating judge accused Baltasar Garzón Camps and other PP politicians of being involved in a corruption affair involving businessman Francisco Correa Sánchez , known as the Caso Gürtel . Camps are said to have received expensive suits and other clothing worth around € 12,000 as a bribe from Correa and other accomplices . After Camps initially stated that he had paid for the suits himself, he later admitted the gift, but stated that he had not given anything in return. On May 14, 2009, the Valencia Region Supreme Court announced that Camps and three other PP members were to be questioned as suspects. Several members of the national PP leadership then criticized the "hunt" against camps. After the interrogation, the court decided to initiate proceedings against Camps, but these were discontinued a few weeks later because there was insufficient evidence to link the suits given to Correa's public procurement. However, after it became known that one of the two judges who had decided to close the case was friends with Camps, the Spanish Supreme Court ordered the reopening of the investigation against Camps in May 2010. In July 2011, the investigative judge of the Valencian Supreme Court decided to initiate a procedure that is to be opened in autumn 2011 and would therefore fall exactly in the primary campaign for the next Spanish parliamentary elections. Although the PP national leadership had suggested that he avoid the trial by admitting guilt and remaining Prime Minister after paying the fine, Camps resigned on July 20 to defend his innocence in court.

Web links

Commons : Francisco Enrique Camps Ortiz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ El País , July 20, 2011: Camps deja la Generalitat para defender su inocencia (Spanish).
  2. ^ El Correo Digital , March 15, 2009: La Justicia imputa por posible delito de cohecho a Camps (Spanish).
  3. ↑ El País , March 6, 2009: Garzón destapa sobornos a Camps y una red de corrupción masiva en Madrid (Spanish).
  4. ↑ Cinco Días, May 14, 2009: El TSJCV cita como imputados a Camps ya Costa el próximo 19 de mayo (Spanish).
  5. ↑ Europa Press, May 14, 2009: Sáenz de Santamaría defiende presunción de inocencia de Camps y niega doble vara de medir con otros imputados (Spanish), Libertad Digital, May 15, 2009: Basagoiti: "Aquí hay una cacería contra Camps" porque "Arrasa al PSOE elección tras elección" (Spanish).
  6. ↑ Globedia.es, August 3, 2009: Camps no será juzgado por los trajes (Spanish).
  7. ↑ El País , May 18, 2010: El Supremo cree que Camps aceptó regalos de forma "repetida y opaca" (Spanish).
  8. ↑ El País , July 15, 2011: Camps se sentará en el banquillo por un delito de cohecho por la causa de los trajes (Spanish).
  9. ↑ El País , July 20, 2011: Rajoy negocia con Camps y Costa para que se declaren culpables y evitar el juicio (Spanish).
personal data
SURNAME Camps, Francisco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Camps Ortiz, Francisco Enrique (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish politician (PP), Prime Minister of the Region of Valencia
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Valencia , Spain