The popular Antonio Pérez Pérez has taken office again today as mayor of Benidorm for the third consecutive legislature and has done so as a representative of the most voted list with which he reached an absolute majority in the last municipal elections and after receiving, consequently, the majority of votes of the new municipal corporation that today has been formed in the plenary session of investiture.
After the promise or oath of the position of councilor by the 25 new councilors of the corporation, the vote proceeded, in which Antonio Pérez Pérez obtained 16 votes of the popular councilors, being the candidate with the most support and revalidating his position at the head of the Benidorm Mayor's Office.
After being sworn in as mayor and receiving the command rod of the city from the councilor Juan Díaz Ortuño, Toni Pérez delivered the investiture speech in which he thanked the people of Benidorm for their participation in the polls to set up the twelfth corporation municipal, as well as his confidence in a project "to build a future at the level of Benidorm". Pérez valued the vast majority obtained as "greater responsibility" and emphasized his "vocation" based on "closeness and contact with the people, management at street level and the solution to the real problems of people.
Pérez also recalled the exceptionality of a legislature "marked by the pandemic", which involved "an extraordinary effort" and which Benidorm assured has known how to overcome and continue transforming itself to maintain its strength as a tourist destination advancing in a city model friendly: “we will only be the best destination to come if we are the best city to live in”.
The mayor has continued to affirm his vocation to continue building "a welcoming, open, inclusive and supportive Benidorm", whose development "is based on actions based on sustainability, innovation, accessibility and governance". A city, he added, "that moves towards social, environmental and economic sustainability".
The new municipal corporation is made up of Antonio Pérez Pérez, Ana Pellicer Pérez, José Ramón González de Zárate Unamuno, María Dolores Cebreros Moral, Jaime Jesús Pérez Esteban, Aida García Mayor, Ana María Soliveres Tomás, Mónica Gómez López, José Javier Jordá Vergara, Jesús Carrobles Blanco, Francisco José Muñoz Antón, María Teresa Moreno García Vera, Ángela María Zaragozí Martínez, María Lourdes Caselles Doménech, Juan Díaz Ortuño, and Luis Navarro Moreno for the Popular Party (PP); Cristina Escoda Santamaría, Sergi Castillo Prats, Laura Rubio Llinares, Miguel Soldevila Pérez, María Ángeles Ivars Bermejo, Antonio Charco Martínez, María Luz Navarro Fuster and Antonio López Mascarenhas for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE); and José Miguel San Martín Fernández for VOX.
