Socialist Party of the Valencian Country

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.

[citation needed] The PSPV-PSOE was the ruling party in the Valencian Country from 1983 through 1995.

The PSPV-PSOE remains the main opposition party of the PP from 1995 to date.