Workers Revolutionary Party (Namibia)

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Workers Revolutionary Party (WRP)
(Communist Party of Namibia (CPN))
Party leader Attie Beukes
founding 1989/2009
Place of foundation Windhoek
Headquarters Windhoek
Colours) _ _
National Assembly Seats
2/96
National Council seats
0/42
Regional council seats
0/121
Local council seats
0/378

The Workers Revolutionary Party (WRP), Communist Party of Namibia (CP or CPN) between 2009 and 2014 , was founded in May 1989 and formed an alliance with the United Democratic Front (UDF) for the constituent assembly for the first free elections in Namibia to the National Assembly . From 1990 onwards, the UDF was represented with four seats.

history

For the 2004 elections, the WRP ran as part of a socialist party alliance with SWANU , but did not win a parliamentary seat.

Between 2009 and 2014 the CPN / CP showed itself as a communist party on its website in the tradition of the Fourth International .

In the 2014 parliamentary elections , the party again stood under the name Workers Revolutionary Party and won two seats in the National Assembly of Namibia with 1.49 percent of the votes cast .

Election results

houses of Parliament

General election Voting shares Seats
2019 0.39%
0/96
2014 1.49%
2/96
2009 0.10%
0/72

president

Presidential election candidate be right Share of votes
2009 Attie Beukes 1005 0.12%

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.klausdierks.com/Geschichte/131.htm Chronology of Namibian History
  2. Manifesto of the CPN 2009. Accessed December 2, 2014
  3. Namibia. WORKERS INTERNATIONAL TO REBUILD THE 4TH INTERNATIONAL. Retrieved June 17, 2019.
  4. ↑ Election manifesto 2014. WRP accessed on December 2, 2014
  5. Archived copy ( memento of January 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Election Commission on December 1, 2014