Socialist Party of the Valencian Country

Socialist Party of the Valencian Country Partit Socialista del País Valencià
President	Alejandro Soler Mur
Secretary-General	Diana Morant
Founded	1978
Headquarters	C/ Blanqueries, 4 Valencia, Valencian Community
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]
Website
www.socialistesvalencians.org
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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]}