Overview

• On July 21 the Ayuntamiento de València approved the bilingual toponym ‘Valéncia’ with an open accent and opened a 20-business-day public consultation
• Vicent Mompó announced on July 28 that the Diputación de València’s provincial council will vote to adopt the same open-accent spelling for institutional coherence
• The PP–Vox municipal coalition based its proposal on Abelard Saragossà’s “Sistema d’accentuació,” which argues that Valencian speakers naturally distinguish open vowels such as the ‘é’
• Opposition groups PSPV–PSOE and Compromís have raised legal and procedural objections, citing the requirements of Decree 69/2017 for toponym changes
• Final ratification by the Consell de la Generalitat Valenciana will follow the Diputación’s forthcoming vote and the conclusion of the city’s public consultation