Socialist Party of the Valencian Country Partit Socialista del País Valencià | |
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| President | Alejandro Soler Mur |
| Secretary-General | Diana Morant |
| Founded | 1978 |
| Headquarters | C/ Blanqueries, 4 Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain |
| Membership (2014) | 17,230[1] |
| Ideology | Social democracy |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| National affiliation | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party |
| Valencian Courts | 27 / 99 |
| Congress of Deputies | 10 / 32 (Valencian seats) |
| Spanish Senate | 8 / 18 (Valencian seats) |
| Provincial deputations | 28 / 89 [2] |
| Local seats | 1,832 / 5,784 [3] |
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The Socialist Party of the Valencian Country (Valencian: Partit Socialista del País Valencià; Spanish: Partido Socialista del País Valenciano, PSPV–PSOE) is a social-democratic political party in the Valencian Community, and is a regional branch of the national Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE).
The PSPV was originally a small nationalist and leftist Valencian party, mostly confined to the academic world within the University of Valencia.[citation needed] In 1978, they decided to merge with the much larger national PSOE, to which they integrated. Their name remains in the name of the Valencian branch of the PSOE, officially called PSPV-PSOE, even though it is usually reduced to PSOE only by the party itself. This Valencian branch of the PSOE, unlike their Catalan counterpart, does not have a record of having acted independently from the national executive of the Spanish-wide PSOE.[citation needed]