name to: Foz do Iguassu. The proposal was approved in a first debate and then rejected in a second debate, at the Town Hall (Camara Municipal), by four votes for and eight against. The bill was initiated by city councillor Djalma Pastorello, of the PSDB. The purpose of the adjustment to the city name was to return the spelling to the original form, as at the foundation of the city in 1914. The change occurred due language reforms of 1945, which changed the orthography of Brazilian Portuguese; however, existing proper names were not obliged to change. Another reason for the proposed adjustment back to the original was that 146 of the 198 member countries of the United Nations do not have the "c" character in their alphabets. The adjustment would therefore rationalise any search for the city in search engines, since Foz do Iguacu's claim to fame world wide is due almost entirely to the falls, which are known as the Iguassu Falls. Djalma Pastorello felt that tourism to the city of Foz do Iguacu would be improved greatly by a clarification of its association with the now-famous Iguassu Falls. However, he estimates that 70Percent of the city's population were against the name change because the local media anticipated the change and presented it in a distorted way, so that locals were unable to see that the intention was to benefit the population
