Books, hagiographies and incisive journalistic investigations have been devoted to many Spanish politicians. Few, very few, can even boast of having music. To Felipe González, Krahe called him “an ignorant crow.” The Valencians of Señor Mostaza gave Eduardo Zaplana Hernández-Soro another shocking plague: “My idol of democracy.” In it he sang: “Deception, but good.” Four words were enough for Luis Prado in 2008, even before that Belt, revealing the infallible strategist, the leader who expected the Mestalla election tsunami of the Spanish centre-right, the impostor who survived several cases of corruption, in short, recording minutes, the halo of eternal doubt that accompanied him for many years who saw the end. in prison with his best friends, but he had lost everything. There was smoke, but no one found the fire. Until this Tuesday, October 15, 2024, delaying the end of political power.
Like all great religions, and Zaplanism has been one of them Valencian politicsThe Edwardian church is built on a foundational myth. The stone that comes out of it is ‘rujazo’. Married to the daughter of a PP strongman from Benidormlawyer Eduardo Zaplana (Cartagena, 1956) He became mayor because of one of the lowest “corruption” cases accepted by the Spanish people. Maruja Sánchez was the most famous outfit in Spain. lThe movement of 1991 allowed Zaplana arriving at the Valencian New York mayor’s office. The starting box since he accelerated the continuous political work.
That section would result in a series on Netflix. Fresco from before the 1991 Olympics that was a promise of development if you enter the right offices: visits, shelters, security guards, pressure, money, secret meetings and the agreement that the Party Party was able to free the PSOE from the mayor. the city’s tourist office. Therefore, and with public wages that were not lacking, everything begins.
At that time, Zaplana had already shown that, more than a liberal democrat or a Christian, he was in line with the business practices of politics. He testified in other tapes where a conversation with his friend Voro Palop was recorded: “I have to gain weight because I am broke, Boro (…) I have to earn more money, I need more money to earn more money. life. Now I have to buy a car. Do you like Vectra of 16 valves? “Ask for a small committee and we will hand it out,” read the ‘documents’ of Naseiro’s case, which was later dismissed by the Supreme Court, in the first investigation of the non-financial Spanish PP. It was in 1990 and he had not yet become mayor: Zaplanism before Zaplana.
For a politician CartagenaBenidorm quickly became very small. In only one parliament did he row his own route to Palauwith the help of the media. With the help of social fatigue – and the collaboration with the Valencian Union of oilers and traders- arrived at the Generalitat. I am the beauty of Julio Iglesias (who will pay him 12 million euros, the amount of B for the concert tour as the ambassador of C. Valenciana) and the aura of Kennedy’s new generosity of the growing PP, Zaplana made a success story. The machine of winning the elections based on the social culture, based on the hypervitaminized self-confidence and turboeconomy brick, is the Valencian C. that created fashion – “on the map”, as he used to say then -, very much. to end the creation of the concept of ‘Valencian power’ in Madrid in joy.
The Generalitat de Zaplanaat the same time, it became an additional laboratory of Spanish freedom: of the model of supervision (establishing privacy services, including public health, television interference) and planning a sector based on great beauty and great heritage: Terra Mítica, the City of Light or the City of Arts and Science, both characterized by the increase in prices and the interaction of losses, which can be schools in successive governments over the years of popular rule. Their evidence is awarding ITV contractskept by him, which was the bite for which he is now accused. He also forced a change in the money law to help political tyranny, which paid for the interests of the people and increased the noise and his support industries, such as committees.
From the PP inside, at this time, the lawyer Zaplana showed his pragmatism. The old UCD, registered in the liberal wing of the party, separated itself from the Christian community (but not the businesses owned by the Cotino family) and the well-known, to the point of sacrificing ‘no mos fareu Catalans’ on the altar of the Academy Valenciana de la Llengua (AVL) he agreed Aznar and Pujol (in some cases), to destroy the Unión Valenciana.
But as happened to Benidorm, and Government House It also became smaller. He answered Aznar’s call when he called him Council of Ministers (he kept the Labor record) when his successor will come out of it. Although he was not elected (Mariano Rajoy would not be) or the PP did not stay in Moncloa, but his political history made him the scourge of the first government of Zapatero (2004-2008), and the cornerstone of the destructive strategy that included the theory of conspiracy. 11M attack.
In the Valencian group, he left behind a group of followers who, for years, had angered Francisco Camps for more than a day, his successor who wanted to save himself and became an enemy, despite the recent reunion between the two former presidents. Valencian coffee shops for their punishment before the courts. Of the army of Zaplanistas who left, many remained on the road. Some survived the camp, were transformed or reinvented themselves, grew politically and reached the front line, such as the President. Carlos MazonSusana Camarero, the councilors of Marciano Gómez or José Antonio Rovira, as well as advisers and senior staff.
After the first parliament of Madrid protested, Zaplana jumped to Telefónicaas a European representative. It was 2008, a few weeks before Gürtel hit the front pages and the news, before Valencia’s PP party collapsed and the judicial crisis began to mar the reputation of Valencia and its party for a decade and a half. In that judicial labyrinth many of those who were on his side were lost: former socialist councilor Rafael Blasco, who reformed him and empowered him in the PP; rather than as president Jose Luis Olivas, what it took Bancaja vandalism and was the first “respectable molt” to be sentenced, 18 months in prison for falsifying a commercial document and a crime against the Treasury; or your dolphin, Serafin Castellanowho recently admitted that he took advantage of the fire brigade in exchange for money and gifts to avoid 21 years in prison.
Meanwhile, Zaplana continued with his public lifeas a consultant (he created the consulting company Decuria Consulting), and he has a stable life: houses, luxury cars and watches worthy of inheritance, a luxurious life, written extensively in the books of the journalist Francesc Arabí.
He Zaplana the deceiver, a man who never existed dodged the bullets of the Naseiro case for thirty years, the first investigation into the financial management of the PP in Spain; the investigation of Terra Mítica, which ended with 22 sentenced, including his former brother-in-law, to 305 years in prison and a fine of 71.2 million euros; the case of IVEX, or the case of Lezo, when the telephone conversations were investigated again, this time with the former president of the Community of Madrid. The former president had never set foot in a courtroom. Not as a witness or as a defendant. Until these tests.
“There is nothing and they cannot prove it,” he answered like a mantra for many years to the persistent complaints of critics and skeptics. He said to Ximo Puig, in 2001, in the Cortes: “Your honor will not be able to prove anything, nothing…”. Although, in some cases, as happened after the resignation of Camps, the Nou d’Octubre was presented to the Palau de la Generalitat, which was recently taken over by.and Alberto Fabraas a good PP representative, who had no judgment problems.
One day in May 2018, the myth of the innocent genius, the person who was always there, was shattered. Baraka went missing the day he was arrested. Erial’s charge was the first and definitive defeat of the hero.
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