United Communist Party of Georgia
| საქართველოს ერთიანი კომუნისტური პარტია United Communist Party of Georgia |
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| Party leader | Temur Yossifowitsch Pipija |
| founding | 1994 |
| Headquarters | Tbilisi |
| newspaper | Komunisti |
| Alignment |
Communism Marxism-Leninism |
| houses of Parliament |
0/150 |
| International connections |
UdKP-CPSU INITIATIVE International meeting of communist and workers' parties |
| Website | Party page on Facebook |
The United Communist Party of Georgia ( Georgian საქართველოს ერთიანი კომუნისტური პარტია Sakartwelos Ertiani Komunisturi Partia ) is a Georgian party that was formed in 1994 . She takes a Marxist-Leninist point of view.
history
The party is a product of the 1994 unification of the Stalin Society , the Georgian Communist Workers' Party and the Union of Georgian Communists .
Political positions
The party is fundamentally committed to the restoration of a socialist union state modeled on the Soviet Union .
Party press
The party publishes the Komunisti newspaper.
Personalities
The chairman of the party from its inception until 2009 was Panteleimon Giorgadze. His son Igor Giorgadze was Georgia's Minister of State Security from 1993 to 1995, and went into exile in Russia in 1995 after he was accused of plotting an assassination attempt on Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze . In 2000 he tried to run as a candidate for his father's party in the Georgian presidential elections, but failed.
Election results
In the Georgian parliamentary elections in 1995, the party narrowly missed entry into the Georgian parliament with 4.49% , while the Communist Party of Georgia (emerged from the Communist Party of the Georgian Soviet Republic), with 2.2%, probably had the decisive for a possible parliamentary entry Voices snapped. In the 1999 parliamentary elections, the party also failed to enter parliament (with 1.4% of the votes cast), and the party did not run in the following parliamentary elections.
In the presidential elections in 1995 Panteleimon Giorgadze ran as a candidate for the United Communists, but with 0.5% of the votes cast, he only achieved fourth place.
Web links
- Official website. Archived from the original on January 11, 2014 ; Retrieved December 13, 2017 (Georgian).