This decision comes after the High Court of Justice of the Valencian Community determined that social jurisdiction is competent to address this procedure. The case stems from a lawsuit filed by a civil servant of the El Campello City Council, who attributes an alleged episode of workplace harassment to the mayor.

Initially, in July 2023, the then Social Court number 5 of Alicante declared its lack of jurisdiction and referred the plaintiff to the contentious-administrative or criminal route. The worker subsequently filed an appeal for reconsideration, which was dismissed in February 2025.

After this, she elevated the matter to the Valencian high court, which in November 2025 revoked the previous resolution and concluded that social jurisdiction should indeed hear the lawsuit. According to that resolution, although the protection of civil servants' rights generally falls under contentious-administrative jurisdiction, the case would fit into one of the exceptions provided in the legislation regulating social jurisdiction and supported by Supreme Court jurisprudence.

With this criterion, the procedure now returns to the social sphere and already has a trial date set in Alicante. The scheduling for November 24 represents the reactivation of a case that had been excluded from this judicial path after the decision made almost three years ago.

The mayor of El Campello has refused to comment on this matter when asked. His entourage has maintained that they do not usually make statements about this type of procedure and have recalled that the lawsuit was already archived two years ago by the same judicial body.