People's Party of the Valencian Community
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People's Party of the Valencian Community
Partido Popular de la Comunidad Valenciana |
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| President | Isabel Bonig |
| Secretary-General | Eva Ortiz |
| Spokesperson | Isabel Bonig |
| Founded | 1989 |
| Headquarters | C/ Quart, 102 46008 Valencia, Spain |
| Ideology |
Conservatism Liberal conservatism Christian democracy |
| Political position |
Centre-right to Right-wing |
| National affiliation | PP |
| Colors | Sky blue |
| Valencian Courts |
31 / 99
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| Congress of Deputies |
11 / 32
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| Senate |
12 / 17
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| Local Government (2015) |
2,219 / 5,784
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| Website | |
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The People's Party of the Valencian Community (Spanish: Partido Popular de la Comunidad Valenciana; Valencian: Partit Popular de la Comunitat Valenciana, PP or PPCV) is the Valencian branch of the People's Party, as well as one of the historically most powerful organizations within the PP.
Upon its foundation, the PPCV remained at opposition under the leadership of Pedro Agramunt. However, after Eduardo Zaplana was elected as new party leader in 1993, the party was able to win the 1995 election by a simple majority and form a coalition government with Valencian Union. In 1999 the party obtained the absolute majority in the Valencian Courts, which it held for the next 16 years.
The party, which turned into one of the most powerful organizations in the Valencian Community, was expelled from government in the 2015 election after a 20-year uninterrupted stay in power amid accusations of political corruption and illegal financing. Post-election agreements between Compromís, PSPV and Podemos, as well as other minor left-wing forces, deprived it from the government of most main cities in the Community, which it had been controlling for decades.
Two months after the 2011 election, in which the PPCV enlarged its absolute majority, President Francisco Camps resigned because of his alleged implication in the Gürtel case, a corruption scandal affecting senior regional party members unveiled in 2009 and that, since then, had begun eroding support for the party in the Community. Camps was replaced as President of the Generalitat Valenciana by Alberto Fabra. The following years saw the unveiling of a series of corruption scandals that rocked the PPCV, involving party MPs, mayors, local councillors, regional councillors, Courts' speakers and former regional president José Luis Olivas. At one point, up to 20% of the party MPs in the Valencian Courts (11 out of 55) were charged in different corruption cases; a joke popularized at the time said that they would become the third political force in the Valencian Courts, only behind PP and PSOE, if they were to form their own parliamentary group. The regional party leadership also had to cope with accusations of illegal financing as well as possible embezzlement in the additional costs incurred in the Formula 1 project and Pope Benedict XVI's 2006 visit to Valencia.
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