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The Socialist Party of the Valencian Country or PSPV (Valencian: Partit Socialista del País Valencià; Spanish: Partido Socialista del Pais Valenciano) was a small nationalist and leftist Valencian party, mostly confined to the academic world within the University of Valencia. In 1978 they decided to merge with the much more relevant Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), where they soon got dilluted. Their name remains in the official moniker of the Valencian branch of the PSOE, called PSPV-PSOE, even though it is often reduced to PSOE only, also by the PSPV-PSOE itself. The 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.
The PSPV-PSOE was the ruling party in the Valencian Community from 1983 through 1995. The People's Party (PP) has won the elections ever since, thus turning the PSPV-PSOE as the main opposition party from 1995 to date.
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