WE PROPOSE AN ALGORITHM FOR eigenvalue DECOMPOSITION OF Symmetric NORMAL COMPLEX MATRICES VIA REAL ORTHOGONAL TRANSFORMATIONS. THIS ALGORITHM ANSWERS POSITIVELY TO THE OPEN QUESTION WHICH IS RAISED IN [M. FERRANTI, R. VANDEBRIL, COMPUTING eigenvalueS OF NORMAL MATRICES VIA COMPLEX Symmetric MATRICES, J. COMPUT. APPL. MATH., VOL.259, (2014), PART A, 281-293].