Overview
- The ‘yes’ option won 897 to 753 in Sunday’s citizen consultation to incorporate Sant Joan into the municipal name.
- Municipal parties agreed to treat the result as binding, and the mayor will take it to a full council session to start the administrative steps.
- Mayor Maria Puig cautioned that converting the vote into an official change will not be quick or easy.
- Some 17,083 residents aged 16 and over were eligible to vote, with two polling sites open from 9:00 to 20:00, a public recount at city hall, and 350 advance ballots cast.
- The initiative reflects Sant Joan’s separate identity after being annexed to Palamós in 1942 during the Franco era, with recent precedents for name changes in Catalonia such as La Ràpita.