The mayor of Valencia Joan Ribó (Compromís) has decided to offer the Valencia City Council to celebrate civil ceremonies “welcome to citizenship” for Valencian babies whose families request it. The initiative has been approved today by the Governing Board of the Consistory, although lacks protocol and locationalthough it has been proposed that it be in the gardens and the Palace of Monforte, which is where weddings are also held. This act will not involve the payment of any type of fee as it is not an administrative act, as reported by the City Council through its website.
It is an initiative of people who have transmitted to the mayor of Valencia the possibility of celebrating the birth of babies without having to do so through a religious ceremony. A type of activity that already exists in the first two cities of Spain -Madrid and Barcelona- and others in the Valencian Community such as Benidorm, Bless you mislata.
Although the motion that promotes this initiative has been approved today by the Local Government Board of Valencia, the Consistory has not defined the protocol for the aforementioned ceremony. Ribó has promised today to have it ready within a month, although he has announced that it will be an act «free, unofficial, merely celebratoryin which the central idea will be the rights of children and the commitment of the City Council so that those rights are always respected”, as reflected in the aforementioned municipal website.
This initiative by the mayor of Valencia Joan Ribó comes months after another was known, but in that case referring to deaths: and which consisted of give pots and seeds so that relatives and relatives planted the ashes of their dead on private terraces and gardens.
