Pridnestrovie Communist Party
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The Pridnestrovie Communist Party (PKP) (Russian: Приднестровская коммунистическая партия (ПКП)) is a Marxist-Leninist (Communist) political party
in Transnistria
.
The Pridnestrovie 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. 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 but opposes the administration of President Igor Smirnov
.
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.
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.
Political party
A political party is a political organization that typically seeks to influence government policy, usually by nominating their own candidates and trying to seat them in political office. Parties participate in electoral campaigns, educational outreach or protest actions...
in Transnistria
Transnistria
Transnistria is a breakaway territory located mostly on a strip of land between the Dniester River and the eastern Moldovan border to Ukraine...
.
The Pridnestrovie Communist Party is the local successor to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the only legal, ruling political party in the Soviet Union and one of the largest communist organizations in the world...
. It was banned for part of the 1990s. Its leader is Oleg Khorzhan. who has been called "young and dynamic" by Olvia Press, in contrast to the "conservative" Communist Party of Pridnestrovie
Communist Party of Pridnestrovie
The Communist Party of Pridnestrovie , "PCP", "KPP", is a Marxist-Leninist, Communist political party in Transnistria. Its leader is Vladimir Gavrilchenko. It is seen as a "conservative" communist party, in contrast to the Pridnestrovie Communist Party .The Communist Party of Pridnestrovie...
headed by Vladimir Gavrilchenko.
Although it fielded candidates for parliament
Transnistrian Supreme Soviet
The Supreme Council of the Transnistrian Moldovan Republic is the parliament of Transnistria. The unicameral legislature consists of 43 seats, all of which are determined by single mandate constituencies...
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
Disputed status of Transnistria
The political status of Transnistria, an unrecognized state on the internationally recognized territory of the Republic of Moldova, has been disputed since the Transnistrian declaration of independence on September 2, 1990. This declaration established a Soviet Socialist Republic separate from...
for Transnistria but opposes the administration of President Igor Smirnov
Igor Smirnov
Igor Nikolaevich Smirnov , is the President of the internationally unrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldovan Republic, also known as Transnistria. He has held this post since 1990.- Childhood :...
.
Nadezhda Bondarenko, editor of the party newspaper Pravda Pridnestrovya (Russian: Правда Приднестровья) and member of the central committee
Central Committee
Central Committee was the common designation of a standing administrative body of communist parties, analogous to a board of directors, whether ruling or non-ruling in the twentieth century and of the surviving, mostly Trotskyist, states in the early twenty first. In such party organizations the...
, was its candidate for the December 10, 2006 presidential election
Transnistrian presidential election, 2006
The 2006 presidential election in Transnistria was held on December 10 of that year. Incumbent President Igor Smirnov won despite opposition having stiffened during the final weeks of the campaign...
. She received 8.1% of the vote, second to Smirnov, who won his fourth term in office with 82.4% of the vote.
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.