Valencian People's Initiative (

Valencian Valencian can refer to: * Something related to the Valencian Community ( Valencian Country) in Spain * Something related to the city of Valencia * Something related to the province of Valencia in Spain * Something related to the old Kingdom of ...

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

ecosocialist Eco-socialism (also known as green socialism, socialist ecology, ecological materialism, or revolutionary ecology) is an ideology merging aspects of socialism with that of green politics, ecology and alter-globalization or anti-globalization. E ...

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

, in the Valencian Country,

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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 (; ) is a Spanish-language daily newspaper in Spain. is based in the capital city of Madrid and it is owned by the Spanish media conglomerate PRISA. It is the second-most circulated daily newspaper in Spain . is the most read newspaper in ...

València Valencia ( , ), formally València (), is the capital of the Province of Valencia, province and Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Valencian Community, the same name in Spain. It is located on the banks of the Turia (r ...

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 Social philosophy, social, Economic ideology, economic, and political philosophy within socialism that supports Democracy, political and economic democracy and a gradualist, reformist, and democratic approach toward achi ...

". IdPV has received a lot of support from

Initiative for Catalonia Greens Initiative for Catalonia Greens (, 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 Socialista Unificat de Catalunya and was ...

, a very similar party that exists in

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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 Community, Valencian federation of the Spanish Left-wing politics, left wing political and social movement United Left (Spain), United Left. Marga Sanz is the current General Coordinator and ...

(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