The democratic transition in the Valencian Country offered a singular complexity in relation to the national problem, and for this it was a privileged scenario to observe the strategies that the state parties deployed when configuring the State of Autonomies in Spain. In this work we reflect on the attitude adopted by the main parties of the Valencian political scene towards the national problem. Even though many of them initially led initiatives that tended to assume a sensitive perspective in terms of nationality or region, this was an issue full of contradictions and internal tensions, especially between the state parties, for which it was not easy to deal with the identity conflicts that were originated within them. In these pages we will try to think about some positions that were improvised and adapted to a large extent, by some ruling elites that did not respond in a homogeneous or unequivocal way to the autonomic challenges after the approval of the Constitution and until the approval of the Statute of the Valencian Community in 1982.
