2007, ISBN: 9781156898352

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Valencian Union, Vicente González Lizondo, Manuel Giner Miralles, Miguel Ramón Izquierdo, Juan Oliver Chirivella, José María Chiquillo Barber, María Angels Ramón-Llin, Leopoldo Ortiz Climent. Excerpt: Valencian Union (Unió Valenciana/Unión Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Valencian Union, Vicente González Lizondo, Manuel Giner Miralles, Miguel Ramón Izquierdo, Juan Oliver Chirivella, José María Chiquillo Barber, María Angels Ramón-Llin, Leopoldo Ortiz Climent. Excerpt: Valencian Union (Unió Valenciana/Unión Valenciana, UV in Valencian and Spanish language respectively) is a nationalist political party in the Valencian Community, Spain. Currently the party is not represented in the Valencian autonomous parliament for it scored 0.95% of the total votes in the relevant 2007 elections, well below the 5% threshold for representation. The party does have a number of councillors on several local councils, obtaining its best results in the Valencia province. The party has been closely associated with the blaverist part of valencianism by claiming that Valencian language is different from the Catalan language and opposing the concept of Països Catalans and Catalan nationalism in the Valencian Community. The party also holds right-wing stances on issues such as economics. It used to form an electoral alliance with the larger right wing Partido Popular (PP). It was formed on 30 August 1982 with the stated purpose of "defending Valencian identity" and ran for the first time in the Spanish general election, 1982; it did so integrated in the larger Spain-wide right-wing block Alianza Popular as part of which it won a seat held by Miguel Ramón Izquierdo. This coalition was kept for the 1983 elections to the Valencian autonomous Parliament. Later on, UV took part by itself in the Spanish general election, 1986 with by Miguel Ramón Izquierdo retaining his seat in the Cortes Generales This success marked the beginning of an upward trend for the party, which, in 1987, spectacularly Books, , Uni-Valenciana~~Books-LLC, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<