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The City Council will appeal the latest ruling on the APR-7 to the Constitutional Court following the technical criteria

The Board of Spokespersons has addressed the latest reports from municipal legal counsel on the path to be taken to "continue defending the general interest."

Benidorm City Council, following the experts' advice, will file an appeal for protection before the Constitutional Court against the latest ruling issued by the High Court of Justice of the Valencian Community (TSJ) last June. In that ruling, the TSJ ruled that the motion for annulment of proceedings filed by the City Council against the ruling that stipulated that the local government should pay €283 million, plus corresponding legal interest, to two companies in compensation for the urban development projects they own, included in the APR-7 sector, was inadmissible.

At a meeting of spokespersons convened by Mayor Toni Pérez this morning, the latest reports issued by municipal and external legal counsel regarding the legal avenues to pursue to "continue defending the public interest" were discussed.

As the mayor stated after learning of the High Court's decision, the City Council's roadmap "is the one established by the experts in relation to the agreements" on which the two companies' claim is based, and "it has not changed one iota." "Benidorm City Council had no other path to defend the public interest than the one it took, always based on technical criteria, and this is demonstrated repeatedly in court rulings"; rulings that initially ruled in favor of the City Council. 

In relation to this matter, there are several open cases. On the one hand, there is the case concerning the City Council's liability for said land based on the agreements signed in 2003 and 2004 and renewed in 2010 and 2013, which is the subject of the latest Supreme Court ruling. On the other hand, there is the case related to the City Council's ex officio review and declaration of nullity of those same agreements, a line that is still ongoing, with five open cases before the courts: two already resolved in the First Instance Court, which have ruled in favor of the City Council and confirmed that said agreements would be null and void, and which are being appealed; and three others that have yet to be ruled on.