This article is about the 1976–1978 Spanish political party. For the current Spanish political party, see People's Party (Spain). For other uses, see People's Party.
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The party was founded through the merge of 7 regional parties:
Extremaduran People's Party: led by Rodríguez Requera and Luis Ramallo García.
People's Party of Catalonia
Valencian Regional Autonomist People's Party: led by Emilio Attard Alonso, J. Aguirre de la Hoz and J. R. Pin Arboledas.
People's Party of Ourense: led by Eulogio Gómez Franqueira, E. Reverter, J. A. Trillo, J. Quiroga Suárez y J. Rodríguez Reza.
Aragonese People's Party: led by León J. Buil and César Escribano.
Alicantine Autonomous People's party: led by J. María Pérez Hikman, Antonio Espinosa and Ramón Sancho.
Balearic People's Party: led by R. Ciar Garau and Francisco Gari.
The majority of the members of the party were members of the reformist wing of the Francoist Regime, that wanted a "controlled" and moderate democratic transition.