Vox demands the return of the name 'Palma de Mallorca', but the PP does not foresee it.

PalmVox will demand the reinstatement of the name "Palma de Mallorca" at the Palma City Council plenary session on September 25. However, this initiative will not have much impact, because the PP "does not plan" to change the name of the city again, according to sources within the City Council who spoke to ARA Baleares.

According to the far-right party, the name 'Palma de Mallorca' "delves into the roots of the founding logic of our capital." To justify this, Vox refers to the "geographical specifier" Majorica", which, "to the vastness of the Roman Empire" was an "element of imperial clarity and administrative rigor." "It was from the 19th century onwards when, for reasons of geographical clarity and to avoid confusion with other Spanish cities, Palma de Mallorca recovered and consolidated in the institutional, administrative and civic spheres, and became de facto during the 20th and 21st centuries," continues the explanatory statement of the Vox proposal.

The far-right party highlights that the first capital city law that Parliament approved in 2006 "recognized this historical and functional reality, and made the name 'Palma de Mallorca' official." And it qualifies as the 2016 act to "impose the single name of 'Palma'" and generate "confusion and a debate that should never have existed." "This political decision, falsely sheltered by a non-existent historical purism, ignores the functional and identity value of the full name," continues the text of the initiative localities," is a factor of "tourism promotion", reflects "the historical tradition" and the link of this municipality "with its island" and reinforces "the island identity."