Transnistrian Communist Party
| Приднестровская коммунистическая партия Transnistrian Communist Party |
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| Party leader | Oleg Khorshan |
| founding | April 20, 2003 |
| Headquarters | Tiraspol |
| Alignment | communism |
| Colours) | red |
| Parliament seats | 1 of 43 |
| International connections | Union of Communist Parties - Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| Website | www.kp-pmr.ru |
The Pridnestrovian or Pridnestrovie Communist Party (short PKP ; Russian Приднестровская коммунистическая партия / Pridnestrovskaia Kommunisticheskaya partija , Moldovan / Romanian Партидул Комунист дин Транснистря / Partidul Comunist din Transnistria ) is a communist political party in the internationally unrecognized, Eastern State Transnistria .
history
The party sees itself as the local successor to the former Communist Party of the Soviet Union , but was only founded on April 20, 2003. In the first election after the founding of the party, the Transnistrian presidential election in 2006 , the PKP and its candidate Nadezhda Bondarenko won 8.1% of the votes, making it the second strongest force. In the 2010 general election, the party was able to win a seat in parliament. In the 2011 presidential election , the PKP ran with Oleg Khorschan as the top candidate and received 5.1% of the vote.
The party is a member of the Union of Communist Parties of the Former Soviet Union . It is one of two communist parties in Transnistria, as well as the Communist Party of Transnistria , which did not run in the last elections.
The party newspaper is Pravda Pridnestrovja .
Web links
- kp-pmr.ru - Official Website (Russian)
- Party's channel on YouTube