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Socialist Party of the Valencian Country (1974)

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Political party
Socialist Party of the Valencian Country Partit Socialista del País Valencià
Founded1974 (1974)
Dissolved1978 (1978)
Merger ofGroup of Socialist Action and Thought
independents
Socialist Convergence of the Valencian Country (1976)
Merged intoSocialist Party of the Valencian Country-PSOE
NewspaperEl poble valencià
IdeologyDemocratic Socialism
Valencian nationalism
Antifascism
Pancatalanism
Republicanism
Political positionLeft-wing
National affiliationPeople's Socialist Party Socialist Unity (1977)

Valencian Socialist Party (in Valencian: Partit Socialista del País Valencià) was a political party in Valencia, Spain. It existed between 1974 and 1978, during the Francoist dictatorship and the early Spanish transition to democracy, which had banned all the political organizations other than those in the Movimiento Nacional. The party wasn't legalized until the 9 of April 1977.

Ideology

The party considered that Valencians were a "singular people", part of the cultural and national unity of the Catalan Countries. The PSPV defended confederalism as the best solution to the internal organization of Spain.

History

Its founders came from different left-wing currents, but the majority were members or had been close to the historic Valencian Socialist Party. The party experimented a significant growth in 1975, specially in Horta Nord, the stronghold of the PSPV.

The party was legalized in April 1977, presenting a common candidacy with the People's Socialist Party called Socialist Unity. The coalition gained 1 MP and 1 senator in the 1977 elections, the first democratic ones since 1936. Due to the good results of the PSOE, that won in the Valencian Country, a sector in the PSPV defended joining that party. Finally, in 1978, the majority sector of the PSPV voted in favour of joining the Valencian federation of the PSOE, forming the Socialist Party of the Valencian Country-PSOE. The other sector decided to join other political movements, including the Communist Party of the Valencian Country and the Nationalist Party of the Valencian Country.

See also

References

  • Benito Sanz Díaz and Miquel Nadal i Tàrrega: Tradició i modernitat en el valencianisme. València, Edicions Tres i Quatre, 1996
  • Santacreu Soler and José Miguel: La transició democràtica al País Valencià. La Xara edicions, 2002, p. 158. ISBN 84-95213-26-5.
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