Communist Party of Finland (1997)

The Communist Party of Finland (Finnish: Suomen puolue communist routines, SKP, Swedish: Finlands Kommunistiska Parti, FKP) is a Finnish political party small. It was founded in 1986 as the Communist Party of Finland (Unity), and given its present name in 1994 without the parentheses. Party Chairman is Juha -Pekka Väisänen, who was elected in June 2013 as the successor of Yrjö Hakanen, who had previously led the party since 1990.

The "new" Communist Party of Finland sees himself in the tradition founded in Moscow in 1918 Communist Party of Finland. With 3,000 members in about 100 grassroots groups their influence is small. In the Finnish parliamentary elections in 2011, she received 0.3 % of the vote and no seats currently has nine deputies to local councils, including in Helsinki and Tampere. The SKP publishes the weekly newspaper Tiedonantaja.

At the international level, the Communist Party of Finland is organized in the European Left since 2004.

Election results

Results in the Reichstag elections

Results in local elections

Party chairman

Secretaries General

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