Maó again rejects the PP's attempt to Castilianize its place name

The municipal plenary session rules out the PP's claim to return to the bilingual name of the city, but a court in Palma will rule on the issue in a year. Ara Maó and the PSIB rejected in the municipal plenary session on Thursday a motion by the Popular Party and the Iniciativa por Mahón association to recover the Spanish toponym of Mahón for the city, a demand that the Popular Party periodically brings to the council. The PP demands that the tw…

Maó will keep the place name in Catalan, after yesterday's municipal plenary session passed the motion presented by the Popular Party, which wanted to recover the Spanish name, Mahón, according to the newspaper Ara. In the plenary yesterday, the councilor of the popular group said that from the group they did not agree on how things had been done “in due course”. In 2021, the bilingual place name Maó-Mahón was abolished and it was renamed only M…