 Manuel Broseta, another leading member of the UCD, published an influential essay ""Paella and the Catalan Countries""
a few months later, the first in a substantial series of anti-Catalanist articles to appear in the newspaper "Las Provincias".The UCD would defend, with some success, a staunchly Valencianist position throughout the negotiations leading up to the first Statute of Autonomy.The "Consell del País Valencià" was established by Royal Decree on 17 March 1978 and held its first meeting at the Monastery of El Puig on 10 April.