 These were superseded by the Valencian Nationalist Bloc (BNV, founded 1998).BNV has favoured cooperation and ties with the other Catalan speaking territories and greater autonomyif not independence itselffrom Spain, in form of the "Països Catalans".It polled at 4–8% in regional elections until in 2011 it joined in an electoral alliance, the Compromís coalition, which gained 18% of the vote in the 2015 regional election and entered the regional government in coalition with the Socialist Party.