Republican Left of the Valencian Country
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Republican Left of the Valencian Country (in Catalan: Esquerra Republicana del País Valencià) is a historical Valencian left national party founded on 1933 and refounded in September of 2000 by means of the union of the valencian federation of Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya with the Front pel País Valencià (Front for the Valencian Country).
In one first stage during the Spanish Second Republic the implantation of ERPV in the Valencian Country took place under the leadership of Gaietà Huguet, in Castellón. In 1935 he impelled a process of unification with the party Esquerra Valenciana (Valencian Left), founded on 1934 and directed by Vicent Marco Miranda (ex-Mayor of València), Josep Benedito, Miquel Duran de València and Manuel Sanchís-Guarner. After Vicent Marco obtained in 1936 the act of deputy in Valencia within the candidatures of the Popular Front both parties joint in a common parliamentary group in the Spanish Congress with the name of Catalan Left. From 1935 to 1998 we cannot distinguish between the history of ERPV and EV since the first organization dissolved itself and its militants affiliated themselves in block to the second. The Spanish Civil War truncated many political projects in which EV participated, the most important of which it was a project of a Valencian statute of autonomy with the official name of Valencian Community, in the same way thus to the rest of historical nationalities of Spain. In spite of it EV reaches their maximum growth in this period, arriving to exceed the 10,000 affiliated in 1937.
Under the regime of Francisco Franco, ERPV was suppressed. In 2000 a group led by Agustí Cerdà i Argent claimed to have refounded the party.
