Communist Party of South Ossetia
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The Communist Party of South Ossetia (Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Yuzhnoi Osetii) is a communist political party in South Ossetia, a de facto (though internationally unrecognized) independent state within the Republic of Georgia.
KPYO is led by Stanislav Kochiev, who is also chairman and speaker of the South Ossetian Parliament.
In the South Ossetian presidential elections of November-December 2001, Kochiev collected 24% of the votes in the first round of the elections on November 18 and 40% in the second round on December 6, arriving second after Eduard Kokoity.
In the South Ossetian parliamentary elections of May 2004, KPYO won 24.7% of the popular vote and 4 out of 34 seats.