Pridnestrovie Communist Party

Not to be confused with Communist Party of Pridnestrovie.
Pridnestrovie Communist Party
Приднестровская коммунистическая партия
Leader Oleg Khorzhan
Founded 1991
Headquarters Gagarin Boulevard, 1 B, Tiraspol, Transnistria
Ideology Communism
Marxism–Leninism
Political position Left-wing
Continental affiliation Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Colours Red, Green (Colours of the Flag of Transnistria), and red and white
Seats in the Supreme Soviet
1 / 43
Website
http://pkp.ucoz.ru/
Politics of Transnistria
Political parties
Elections

The Pridnestrovian Communist Party (PKP) (Russian: Приднестровская коммунистическая партия (ПКП)) is a communist party in Transnistria.

The Pridnestrovian Communist Party is the local successor to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. It was banned for part of the 1990s. Its leader is Oleg Khorzhan.[1] who has been called "young and dynamic" by Olvia Press, in contrast to the "conservative" Communist Party of Pridnestrovie headed by Vladimir Gavrilchenko.

Although it fielded candidates for parliament in the legislative elections of 11 December 2005, it failed to gain a single seat and has no political representation outside local government.

It supports independent statehood for Transnistria and opposes the administration of president Yevgeny Shevchuk.

Nadezhda Bondarenko, editor of the party newspaper Pravda Pridnestrovya (Russian: Правда Приднестровья) and member of the central committee, was its candidate for the December 10, 2006 presidential election. She received 8.1% of the vote, second to Smirnov, who won his fourth term in office with 82.4% of the vote.[2]

Khorzhan and Bondarenko were arrested on March 11, 2007, when handing out leaflets ahead of an anti-Smirnov rally and sentenced to three-day's detention as an administrative punishment. On March 13, a Communist demonstration took place in Tiraspol against growing consumer prices and energy tariffs and to demand the release of the Pridnestrovie Communist Party leaders.[3]

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  1. ↑ Communists field female candidate for 2006 presidential election
  2. ↑ Kyiv Post. Trans-Dniester separatist authorities in eastern Moldova detain opposition leaders
  3. ↑ RIA Novosti - World - Communists rally in Moldova's breakaway region