Valencia to discuss name change

The Social Welfare, Education, Culture and Sports Commission of the Valencia City Council will address changing the city’s official name on Tuesday, following the motion presented by the mayor, María José Catalá, in the extraordinary session of the Board of Local Government on June 20.

At the moment, the names of Valencia and València are used for Valencia, and so the collegiate body agreed to “promote the procedure for changing the name of the municipality of Valencia, so that from now on, the official form of the municipality can be in Valencian and Spanish”, as reported by the council in a statement.

The municipal services have been in charge of processing the appropriate administrative file, which now reaches the table of the permanent Culture information commission. This body is responsible for the study, report or consultation of matters that must be submitted to the decision of the Plenary. The opinions it adopts are mandatory and non-binding.

The Social Welfare, Education, Culture and Sports Commission of the Valencia City Council is made up of seven members: three proposed by the ‘PP’ group, two from Compromís, one from the socialist group and another from Vox, in proportion to political affiliation of the councillors of the Plenary.

The opinion of the commission on the change of the name of the city will be debated in an ordinary session of the Plenary Session of the City Council and must be approved with the favourable vote of the absolute majority of the legal number of its members, as indicated in Law 8/2010, of June 23, Local Regime of the Valencian Community.

Once the plenary agreement has been sent to the Generalitat, the Consell “will definitively approve by decree the official bilingual name of the city of Valencia,” says the council.

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