The dissidentgroup of members of Unitat del Poble Valencià who disagreed with UPV refounding itself as the Bloc Nacionalista Valencià (Valencian Nationalist Group) (BNV) and went to form their own political party under the EV acronym.

In 2001 unsuccessful attempts were made towards a merger or alliance with Esquerra Republicana del País Valencià (Republican Left of the Valencian Country, ERPV).

In the European elections of 2004 they were part of the Europa dels Pobles (Europe of the People) list together with ERC, Aralar and Chunta Aragonesista (other regional parties of the Spanish state).

Esquerra Valenciana joined the Bloc in 2007, and remained inactive until it allied in 2014 with Estat Valencià (Valencian State), another souveranist faction of the Bloc, to form a left-wing independence pole.

Esquerra Valenciana, however, left Compromís in December 2016 and associated itself with ERPV a year later, during the October 2017 Aplec del Puig.