 The first public attacks against a perceived
pancatalanism of the left-wing parties occurred in the run up to the first democratic elections, in June 1977, and there were a number of violent attacks on left-wing activists and bookshops from this time on.In terms of democratic politics, the party which most closely espoused the blaverist cause was the centre-right Unión de Centro Democrático (UCD), which was in
power nationally (under Adolfo Suárez) but which trailed the socialists in Valencia and Alicante.The first speech attacking pancatalanism came in December 1977 from Emilio Attard, its leader in the province of Valencia.