Levante-El Mercantil Valenciano is a newspaper from the Valencian Country that belongs to the Prensa Ibérica printing group, which publishes also the newspaper Información in Alacant. It had a brief precedent in Avance (30 March – 15 April 1939) and it was the bulletin of the Valencian section of the FET y de las JONS. The newspaper later belonged to the Movimiento (official Francoist political movement) press. Since 1977 it belonged to the Medios de Comunicación Social del Estado (Social Communication Media of the State) and in 1984 it was purchased by the private enterprise Prensa Valenciana.