Mariano Rajoy says Francisco Camps should be the P.P. candidate in Valencia

Mariano Rajoy says Francisco Camps should be the P.P. candidate in Valencia
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By h.b. - Sep 2, 2010 - 2:04 PM
The Partido Popular leader did not refer to a new police report in the press yesterday which alleged the illegal funding of the PP in Valencia

Mariano Rajoy in Toledo - Photo EFE

Mariano Rajoy, the leader of the Partido Popular, has today ratified Francisco Camps as the party’s candidate in the Valencia regional elections, despite the revelations in the press today of more alleged irregularities in the regional party.

‘Camps should be the candidate at the elections’, said Rajoy, attending journalists at the end of the two day closed PP summit in Toledo where party leaders have been planning the new political season.

When pushed further about the possibility that Francisco Camps will be found guilty, Rajoy limited his comment to ‘I have already said what I had to say’.

A Police Money Laundering Division report claims that 846,000 € was obtained from a group of businessmen to illegally fund the party in Valencia in 2008, and that in return the PP awarded contracts to the companies ‘as a consideration for the favours realised’. The report highlights the activities of the ex Secretary General of the PP in Valencia, Ricardo Costa, ‘in obtaining funds and reducing the debt’.

The new police report, which was sent to the judge Antonio Pedreira last July 20th, links businessmen from companies linked to the Gürtel corruption allegations to the illegal financing of the Partido Popular in Valencia. One example is the claim that businessman Enrique Ortiz, who is also implicated in the Brugal case in Orihuela, paid in money to an account which was used to meet party costs.

The Partido Popular in Valencia has said that the latest police report on the Gürtel cases is ‘false’ and intended to influence the decision of the judges investigating the case in the Madrid High Court.

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