Overview

• The full City Council voted along party lines to adopt the bilingual form 'Valéncia' with a closed accent, diverging from the cadèmia VaValenciana de la Llengua’s 2017 open-accent ruling
• PP and Vox councillors backed the change on the basis of a technical study by AVL academic Abelard Saragossà that argues the closed accent matches traditional local pronunciation
• Compromís and PSPV councillors condemned the decision as a nationalist gesture that sidelines the statutory AVL authority and diminishes Valencian linguistic norms
• The approved measure enters a 20-business-day public information period with notices on the municipal electronic headquarters and in the Official Gazette of the Province of Valencia
• Once public submissions are addressed, the council will hold a final plenary vote before sending the agreement to the Consell de la Generalitat Valenciana for ratification