Pridnestrovie Communist Party

The Transnistrian Communist Party ( PKP short; Russian Приднестровская коммунистическая партия / Pridnestrovskaia Kommunisticheskaya partija, Moldovan / Romanian Партидул Комунист дин Транснистря / Partidul Comunist din Transnistria ) is a communist political party in the internationally unrecognized, Eastern State Transnistria.

History

The party sees itself as a local successor of the former Communist Party of the Soviet Union, but was only founded on 20 April 2003. At the first election after the founding of the party, the Transnistrian presidential election in 2006, the PKP with its candidate Nadezhda Bondarenko was able to achieve 8.1 % of the vote and was the second strongest. In 2010 general election, the party won a parliamentary seat for themselves. In the presidential elections of 2011, the PKP performed with Oleg choir Chan as the leading candidate, reaching 5.1% of the vote.

The party is a member of the Union of Communist Parties of the former Soviet Union. She is one of two communist parties of Transnistria, still exists next to the Communist Party of Transnistria, which, however, did not compete at the last election.

The party newspaper Pravda Pridnestrowja.