Communist Party of South Ossetia

The Communist Party of South Ossetia (Russian Коммунистическая партия Республики Южная Осетия; Ossetian Хуссар Ирыстоны Коммунистон парти ) is a political party in the internationally recognized by few countries Republic of South Ossetia. The current party leader Stanislaw Kotschijew, former Speaker of the South Ossetian Parliament.

History

The party was founded in 1993 and was included in the composite Party of the Union of Communist Parties of the successor states of the Soviet Union on 15 May of the same year. 1994, in the first parliamentary election since the de facto independence of the country, the Communist Party of South Ossetia won a total of 19 of the 36 seats in parliament .. In the presidential election, 1999, the KP- Juo reached on the first ballot with its leading candidate Stanislaw Kotschijew about 24 % of the votes, it came to the run-off election between Kotschijew and Eduard Kokoity, was defeated in the Kotschijew with 40 % of votes.

In the parliamentary elections of 2004 the party could win about 25 % of the voters to support him. In the 2009 parliamentary elections the party won 22.25 percent of the vote and was just behind the South Ossetian People's Party the third strongest party. Since then, she has eight seats in the South Ossetian Parliament. In the 2012 presidential election the leading candidate of the party, Stanislaw Kotschijew received on the first ballot, only about 5.3 % of the vote.