Més–Compromís

After a traumatic Spanish transition to democracy,{{Cite journal|last=Paniagua|first=Javier|date=2001|title=Un solo territorio y varias identidades. El trauma del nacionalismo valenciano|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40340762|journal=Historia Social|issue=40|pages=115–136|jstor=40340762|issn=0214-2570}} Valencian nationalism became an extraparlamentary force when the Valencian Autonomous Community was created in 1982.{{Cite journal|last1=Abellán-López|first1=María Ángeles|last2=Pardo-Beneyto|first2=Gonzalo|last3=Abellán-López|first3=María Ángeles|last4=Pardo-Beneyto|first4=Gonzalo|date=August 2018|title=The new configuration of the Valencian party system. An institutional approach|url=http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1405-14352018000200175&lng=es&nrm=iso&tlng=en|journal=Convergencia|language=en|publication-date=August 2018|volume=25|issue=77|pages=175–200|doi=10.29101/crcs.v25i77.9200|issn=1405-1435|doi-access=free|hdl=10045/93127|hdl-access=free}} This led to the main nationalist party, the Valencian People's Union, to moderate their positions in an attempt to find accommodation in the new political system. This accommodation would lead to the birth of the Valencian Nationalist Bloc, in a process known as Third Way,{{Cite book|last=Martín Cubas|first=Joaquín|url=https://ddd.uab.cat/record/44885|title=La polémica identidad de los valencianos: a propósito de las reformas de los Estatutos de Autonomía|date=2007|publisher=nstitut de Ciències Polítiques i Socials. Barcelona, Catalunya|others=Institut de Ciències Polítiques i Socials}} where the involvement of Valencian Nationalists into Catalan issues, that had been vague but real since the emergence of Joan Fuster as an intellectual leader,{{Cite book|last1=Dieckhoff|first1=Alain|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zEErDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Valencian+nationalism%22&pg=PA139|title=Modern Roots: Studies of National Identity|last2=Gutiérrez|first2=Natividad|date=2017-07-05|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-351-91700-1|language=en|quote=}} was abandoned and substituted by a discourse strictly based on the Land of Valencia. The failure of the Valencian Nationalist Bloc of reaching the parliament in the 2003 Valencian regional election, would led them to explore electoral coalitions with other leftists forces, in a process that would lead to the birth of Coalició Compromís.{{Cite journal|last=Català Oltra|first=Lluís|date=2012|title=Fonaments de la identitat territorial amb especial atenció a la identitat nacional. El cas valencià: discursos polítics sobre la identitat valenciana entre els militants de base del Bloc, EUPV i PSPV-PSOE|url=http://rua.ua.es/dspace/handle/10045/28677}}

During the process, the formation would evolve from a strict Valencian nationalism to a civic nationalism less centered on elements as language, culture, and history, understanding that Valencianism is originated in the will of the individuals. Also, Compromís become a catch-all party, and joined the Valencian government in 2015.

After the 2019 Valencian regional election, leaders of the Valencian Nationalist Bloc had a refundation in mind,{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=22 October 2019|title=Dirigentes del Bloc ya planean una refundación del partido: nuevo nombre y concepto para 2020|url=https://valenciaplaza.com/dirigentes-del-bloc-ya-planean-una-refundacion-del-partido-nuevo-nombre-y-concepto-para-2020|access-date=2021-09-13|website=Valencia Plaza|language=es}} justified by a need of abandoning the original name, regarded as not very attractive for the voters,{{Cite web|title=El Bloc encara un lífting a fons malgrat la pandèmia|url=https://www.publico.es/public/bloc-encara-lifting-fons-malgrat-pandemia.html|access-date=2021-09-13|website=Diario Público}} and an adaptation to the ideological changes experimented during the last decade.{{Cite web|title=Un valencianisme sobiranista i d'arrel popular|url=https://www.eltemps.cat/article/13136/un-valencianisme-sobiranista-i-darrel-popular|access-date=2021-09-13|website=El Temps|language=Catalan}} The refundation was expected to happen in June, 2020, but the COVID-19 pandemic delayed the congress until 2021.

The refoundation happened in June 2021, despite receiving internal criticism for what had been regarded as an ideological renunciation.{{Cite web|title=Més-Compromís, la transformació d'un valencianisme migpartit|url=https://www.eltemps.cat/article/14248/mes-compromis-la-transformacio-dun-valencianisme-migpartit|access-date=2021-09-13|website=El Temps|language=Catalan}} In November 2021, former president of both UPV and Bloc, Pere Mayor, announced he had left the party.{{Cite web|date=2021-12-01|title=Pere Mayor: "Si Més Compromís continua al govern està acceptant i beneïnt l'engany del PSOE"|url=https://www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/govern-engany-psoe/|access-date=2021-12-04|website=VilaWeb|language=ca}}{{Cite web|date=2021-11-30|title=El histórico Pere Mayor pide la baja de Compromís por el cambio de rumbo del partido|url=https://www.lasprovincias.es/politica/pere-mayor-pide-20211130220122-nt.html|access-date=2021-12-04|website=Las Provincias|language=es}}

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