Overview

• Section Two of the Provincial Court dismissed Vox’s appeal seeking to require the Presidency and the National Security Council to certify any convening during the October 2024 floods.
• Judges found the proposed inquiry offered no useful link to clarifying the deaths or injuries and reaffirmed that coordination of civil protection rests with the Consell under the Statute of Autonomy.
• The decision is final with no further appeal, keeping the criminal investigation centered on regional emergency management.
• The appeal challenged an April 16 order by Judge Nuria Ruiz Tobarra, issued after an April 11 request from Asociación Liberum, which held there was no causal nexus between national security actions and the fatalities.
• The case continues to list former regional minister Salomé Pradas and her deputy Emilio Argüeso as investigated, despite Vox’s claim that national bodies such as Aemet and the Júcar River Basin Authority provided key information.