My Tailor´s name is Tomàs.

How much does a tailor made suit cost? This question has a variety of possible answers but if you are Francisco Camps, president of the Valencian community for the ruling Popular Party, it could cost your position, your credibility and your future. At this very moment Camps faces corruption charges for receiving suits and a waistcoat (in which to meet the Pope) to the value of around 12,000€ paid for by a group of businessman who have received millions from the public purse of the Generalitat and the private purse of the Popular Party. While the latter is of no concern to anyone outside that party, the former is most certainly a matter for public concern.
Every grand event, political meeting, trade fair or public celebration of any kind requires an enormous amount of organization so that everything runs like clockwork on the night. This is something that we,the public who attend, usually take for granted without a second thought as to who designed the set, who bullt the stage, rented the seats, provided the flowers etc.etc. As you can imagine , this is a highly specialized business which needs all the right contacts and an artist`s ability to visualise and then create the right scenario and ambience to create the successful effect desired. In this area, the Valencian company Orange Market seems to have been THE BEST. La créme de la créme.
This we can safely assume, as it appears that Orange Market is the ONLY company to have organized events of the aforementioned kind during the last five or six years. The astronomical sums of money received by this company is unknown but it is safe to say that it runs into several millions of euros. In this country, when public sector contracts are adjudicated, they are supposed to be submitted to a process of scrutinization and later offered to the company with the lowest tender, assuming that the standard of workmanship and guarantees be the same. This system is the one which functions in just about every democratic state. let`s face it , it is one of the fundamental parts of a democratic system. Strange then that not one other company has been capable in all these years of offering a better tender to the Valencian authorities than the flamboyant Alvaro Perez head of Orange Market. Indeed the philanthropical Mr Perez, who has become a wealthy man during this period as well as a personal friend, not only of President Camps and his wife, but also of other high ranking members of the Popular Party in the three provinces of the Valencian community, is known to be a very generous person. Amongst the presents which have allegedly been received from him by his political benefactors figure the hand made suits adorning the sprightly figure of Francisco Camps. That is the sad situation. One could interpret it as corruption or simply a friendly gesture from a generous friend. The judge will be the one to decide. What is not on trial here is whether or not this has been a hidden way of illegally funding the Popular Party, and I, for one would prefer to keep MY opinion to myself.