Prensa y poder. Las Provincias, actor político central de la Transición valenciana

Abstract

Las Provincias daily was a main political actor during the Valencian Transition. Before Franco's death, it supported the opposition movements againts the dictatorship. From 1978, however, the newspaper recovered its traditional conservadurism and started to use an anticatalanism discourse. Its shared strategy with UCD placed the identity simbols of Valencian people on the political arena. This topic divided the people and left its mark in the Statute of Autonomy.