Francisco Camps, former president of the Generalitat with the PP, granted this morning a interview with Valencian public television, À Punt, in which he has refused to answer a question posed by the journalist Bernardo Guzmán, delegate of Cadena SER in the Valencian Community, to whom he has snapped: “I don’t allow you to speak. And you, why are you here?” Following the ruling last week from the National Court, which acquitted him in the last trial on the Gürtel case, Guzmán has stressed Camps’ innocence from a judicial point of view and has questioned him about whether, now that he has announced his intention to return to the first “political line”, there may be some “political responsibility” for the introduction of the Gürtel plot during his Government of the Generalitat (from 2003 to 2011) or for the convictions of dozens of people who were part of his team.
“The sentence does not say that,” Camps interrupted. “I’m not talking about the sentence,” the journalist replied. “I don’t allow him to speak. And you, why are you here?” the former president asked, in a dull tone. Later, he accused him of attacking him on the radio “personally for 15 years”, without being able to defend himself, which Guzmán has categorically denied, who has described the politician’s attitude as very undemocratic. “It makes no sense for me to come to this television and meet the person who has been attacking me personally and politically for 15 years,” Camps said, visibly upset.
Òscar Martínez, head of the information program You give them news about matí, in which the interview took place, explained that the Prisa Media delegate in the Valencian Community is a regular guest on the program on Mondays, along with other journalists, such as Dani Valero, from The Spanish is, or Silvia Zarza, from Europa Press. Both have shown their support for Guzmán after the fight. And Camps has responded that he has always attended to the press.
The politician has refused to answer the question from the director of Cadena SER in Valencia, which, in reality, repeated the one that Martínez had previously asked, in the first part of the interview, before the rest of the informants intervened. Camps insisted that “he has won each of the processes” and in vindicating his Government action that was the protagonist of the “most brilliant” stage of the territory, the “epoch of splendor of the presence of the Valencian Community in the world”, without doing so. no mention of the numerous cases of corruption that were uncovered during his mandate.
Then, Martínez asked him: “Don’t you have any criticism to make of your time in government? In those years there was the Gürtel plot. There are 61 convicted, 21 acquitted, there are people who have worked with you who have been convicted, counselors who have gone to prison. Isn’t there any criticism of that stage?” “I criticize your insistence,” Camps replied. “15 years later, after demonstrating my honorability and honesty, I do criticize that insistence. I have been listening to these absolutely minor things for 15 years,” he added in a blasé tone.
Throughout the eventful interview, Camps has claimed public television Channel 9 during his government and has stated that he would not have closed it, as his successor at the head of the Generalitat, Alberto Fabra, also from the PP, did in 2013. It was one of the most controversial stages of the chain, accused of numerous scandals of journalistic manipulation and information censorship and burdened by a debt of more than 1.2 billion euros. The Generalitat chaired by Camps appointed Pedro García, who was responsible for the press and Secretary of Communication, general director of the Valencian Public Radio Television (RTVV), a position he held between 2004 and 2009.
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García was one of the 19 convicted of rigging the award of the contract for the supply of screens, sound and public address systems to broadcast the Pope’s visit to Valencia in 2006. Last week, the National Court suspended his entry into prison due to the six-year sentence. years and nine months in prison, after confessing to the crimes of embezzlement and fraud against the administration, among others, and having no criminal record. À punt began broadcasting in 2017, created by the left-wing Government of the Generalitat (PSPV-PSOE and Compromís), replacing Channel 9.
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