Valencian People's Initiative (

Valencian Valencian () or Valencian language () is the official, historical and traditional name used in the Valencian Community (Spain), and unofficially in the El Carche comarca in Murcia (Spain), to refer to the Romance language also known as Catal ...

: Iniciativa del Poble Valencià, IdPV) is a Valencianist and

ecosocialist Eco-socialism (also known as green socialism or socialist ecology) is an ideology merging aspects of socialism with that of green politics, ecology and alter-globalization or anti-globalization. Eco-socialists generally believe that the expansi ...

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific ideological or p ...

, in the

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. IdPV is a part of the Compromís coalition.

Ideology

According to one of its leaders, Pasqual Mollà, IdPV is an "

and Valencianist" party.Joaquín Ferrandis
Iniciativa del Poble Valencià se sitúa enfrente del sector mayoritario de EU.
El País,

València Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is also the capital of the province of the same name. The wider urban area also ...

13/09/2007 According to the documents of its founding congress, IdPV is "a political alternative to the left of classical

social democracy Social democracy is a political, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy. As a policy regime, it is described by academics as advocating economic and social interventions to promote s ...

". IdPV has received a lot of support from

Initiative for Catalonia Greens Initiative for Catalonia Greens ( ca, Iniciativa per Catalunya Verds, ICV; ) was an eco-socialist political party in Catalonia. It was formed as a merger of Iniciativa per Catalunya and Els Verds. IC had been an alliance led by Partit Socialis ...

, a very similar party that exists in

Catalonia Catalonia (; ca, Catalunya ; Aranese Occitan: ''Catalonha'' ; es, Cataluña ) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a '' nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy. Most of the territory (except the Val d'Aran) lies on the nort ...

History

IdPV was founded after ''Esquerra i país'' (Left and Country), an internal current of

United Left of the Valencian Country United Left of the Valencian Country () is the Valencian federation of the Spanish left wing political and social movement United Left. Marga Sanz is the current General Coordinator and Ignacio Blanco Giner its spokesperson. The Communist Party o ...

(EUPV), created a new political party. IdPV left EUPV in 2008.

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External links

Official website of Coalició Compromís
(in Valencian) Political parties in the Valencian Community Regionalist parties in Spain Secessionist organizations in Europe Green political parties in Spain Socialist parties in Spain Valencian nationalism Left-wing nationalist parties {{Spain-party-stub