Valencian Left
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Valencian Left (in Catalan: Esquerra Valenciana) is a historical nationalist Valencian left party founded the July 26 in 1934 that advocated the self-determination of the Valencian Country. Suppressed during the Francoist dictatorship, was refounded April 7 in 1998 by a group of ex-militants of Unitat del Poble Valencià (Valencian People Union) after the conversion of this party in Bloc Nacionalista Valencià (Valencian Nationalist Group) (BNV). His present president is Robert Mora.
[edit] EV during the Second Spanish Republic
In their origin was a split of Partit d'Unió Republicana Autonomista (Party of Republican and Autonomist Union), of which they were broken off because of discrepancies on the political strategy. The new organization assumed the idea of one confederation with the brother nations with Catalan language, which gave rise to a process of unification with Esquerra Republicana del País Valencià (Republican Left of the Valencian Country), started off promoted by Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (Republican Left of Catalonia) in 1933 in Castellón. This process took place in 1935 under the direction of personalities like Gaietà Huguet (ERPV ex-militant), Vicent Marco Miranda (ex-mayor of València), Josep Benedito, Miquel Duran de València and Manuel Sanchis-Guarner. Between 1935 and 1998 it is not possible to distinguish between the history of ERPV and EV since the first organization dissolved itself and its militants affiliated everybody in the second (see Esquerra Republicana del País Valencià for this period). After obtaining Vicent Marco in 1936 the act of deputy by Valencia within the lists of the Frente Popular (People's Front), ERC and EV formed a joint parliamentary group in spanish Congress with the name of Esquerra Catalana. However, Spanish Civil War truncated diverse political projects in which EV participated, most important of which it was a project of Valencian statute of autonomy, with the official name of Valencian Country. During this warlike period, EV already reaches their maximum growth and its greater implantation, counting itself with more than 10,000 affiliated in 1937, a significant amount of groups in regions pertaining to the provinces of Valencia and Castellón, and the party had made contact with any people in the southern lands of the valencian territory.
[edit] Valencian Left during the democracy
After its dissolution during the Francoism, Esquerra Valenciana was refunded in 1998 defining as a party "of national, republican and transforming left of the Valencian Country; that fights for the political sovereignty and defends the free confederation of this territory with Catalonia and the Balearic Islands". In 2001 tried a convergence process unfruitfully or at least the establishment of any type of alliance with Republican Left of the Valencian Country (ERPV). The agreement granted to the militants of Valencian Esquerra (EV) a chair in the executive commission of ERPV by each 12 of them who entered her. Later the new formation would be denominated EV-ERPV. EV go to 2003 valencian autonomic elections within l'Entesa electoral coalition, joint Esquerra Unida and the Green Party of the Land of Valencia. Although l'Entesa obtained 6 deputies no one of them was a member of EV. In the European elections of 2004 it joins in the list Europa dels Pobles (Europe of the People) with ERC, Aralar and Chunta Aragonesista (other regional parties of the Spanish state).
