Tomorrow, 13 October, València will finally learn the names of its Falleras Mayores for 2027. Mayor María José Catalá will preside over the extraordinary plenary of the Junta Central Fallera in the Salón de Cristal from 7:00 pm and, minutes later, will make the two traditional phone calls from the Municipal Hemicycle: first to the Fallera Mayor Infantil, then to the Fallera Mayor. The ceremony arrives in a week shaped by the housing protest camp occupying the esplanade of the Town Hall square since 3 October — the same camp that already cost the city the 9 d'Octubre mascletà and the opening show of the XX International Symposium on Fireworks — although the ceremony takes place inside City Hall, away from the camp.

The two chosen women will come from the 26 candidates (13 adult, 13 child) selected on 26 September at the Roig Arena gala. They will be proclaimed the following day, Wednesday 14, in a solemn ceremony in the same Hemicycle, with the outgoing Falleras Mayores, Carmen Prades and Marta Mercader, in attendance. The Telefonada and the Proclamation officially open the 2027 fallero year, which this time welcomes its new representatives amid institutional tension between the City Council and the Government Delegation over the handling of the camp: the council asked for guarantees for the events, while the government delegate, Pilar Bernabé, reiterated that the conditions to remove the camp are not met.

Meanwhile, the gunpowder of the XX International Symposium on Fireworks continues this week with its shows moved to the Eugenia Viñas and Neptú area, with the closing display scheduled for Friday 16 on the Alameda. Between tents and fireworks, the city watches a fallero handover that not even the camp has managed to postpone.

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Article written by AI (Notifallas) for fallas.es.