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Communist Party of Belarus Коммунистическая партия Беларуси Камуністычная партыя Беларусі
Abbreviation	CPB / КПБ
Secretary-General	Aliaksiej Sokal
Founders	Yefrem Sokolov Viktor Chikin
Founded	2 November 1996; 27 years ago (1996-11-02)[1]
Split from	Belarusian Left Party "A Just World"
Headquarters	21st Building, Chicherina St, Minsk, Belarus
Newspaper	Communist Belarus
Youth wing	Communist Youth League
Membership (2011)	6,000[2][needs update]
Ideology	Communism Marxism–Leninism Soviet patriotism Belarusian–Russian unionism Pro-Lukashenko
Political position	Far-left
National affiliation	RKSKPPGA
Regional affiliation	UCP–CPSU
International affiliation	IMCWP
Slogan	"Democracy, Justice, Socialism!" (Russian: «Народовластие, справедливость, социализм!»)
House of Representatives	7 / 110
Council of the Republic	1 / 64
Local seats	309 / 18,110
Party flag
Website
www.comparty.by
Politics of Belarus Political parties Elections

The Communist Party of Belarus (CPB; Russian: Коммунисти́ческая па́ртия Белару́си, romanized: Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Belarusi; Belarusian: Камуністы́чная па́ртыя Белару́сі, romanized: Kamunistyčnaja Partyja Bielarusi) is a communist^[3] and Marxist–Leninist^[3] political party in Belarus. The party was created in 1996 and supports the government of president Alexander Lukashenko.^[4] The leader of the party is Aliaksiej Sokal.^[5] The party has had more seats in the National Assembly of Belarus than any other party since the 2000 Belarusian parliamentary election, the first national election it participated in. However, most seats in the Belarusian legislature are held by independent politicians.

Overviewedit

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The party suggested merging with the Belarusian Left Party "A Just World" (PKB) on July 15, 2006. While the Communist Party of Belarus is a pro-presidential party, the Party of Communists of Belarus was one of the major opposition parties in Belarus. According to Sergey Kalyakin, the chairman of the PKB, the so-called "re-unification" of the two parties was a plot designed to oust the opposition PKB.^[6]

The main foreign policy goal of strengthening the party proclaimed national security through the development of Belarus-Russia Union State and the phase reconstruction voluntarily renewed Union nations, strengthening its political and economic independence.

The KPB is part of the Union of Communist Parties - Communist Party of the Soviet Union (SKP - KPSS) and the International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties (IMCWP); it enjoys relations with other communist parties in post-Soviet states and throughout the world to a much greater extent than the PKB, which is affiliated with the Party of the European Left and is considered by many in the region to be "pro-Western."^{[according to whom?]}

At the 2004 parliamentary election, the KPB obtained 5.99% and 8 out of 110 seats in the House of Representatives, 6 seats in 2008 and even less in 2012 - where it won 3 seats.

Because of the party's support for President Lukashenko, 17 of its members were appointed by him in the country's upper house, the Council of the Republic of Belarus, in 2012.

In 2014, the party increased its representation by obtaining 5 seats.

The party improved its result in the 2016 parliamentary elections, where it won 8 seats and then further increased it in the 2019 elections - where it won 11 seats.

During the 2020–21 Belarusian protests, the Communist Party of Belarus participated in a meeting in support of Alexander Lukashenko.^[7]

Electoral historyedit

Presidential electionsedit

Election	Candidate	First round		Second round		Result
		Votes	%	Votes	%
2001	Endorsed Alexander Lukashenko	4,666,680	75.65%			Elected Y
2006	Endorsed Alexander Lukashenko	5,501,249	82.97%			Elected Y
2010	Endorsed Alexander Lukashenko	5,130,557	79.65%			Elected Y
2015	Endorsed Alexander Lukashenko	5,102,478	83.47%			Elected Y
2020	Endorsed Alexander Lukashenko	4,661,075	80.10%			Elected Y

Legislative electionsedit

Election	Party leader	Performance					Rank	Government
		Votes	%	± pp	Seats	+/–
2000	Viktor Chikin	No data			6 / 110	New	1st	Support
2004	Tatsyana Holubeva	334,383	5.31%	New	8 / 110	2	1st	Support
2008		229,986	4.27%	1.04	6 / 110	2	1st	Support
2012		141,095	2.69%	1.58	3 / 110	3	1st	Support
2016	Igor Karpenko	380,770	7.40%	4.71	8 / 110	5	1st	Coalition
2019	Aliaksiej Sokal	559,537	10.62%	3.22	11 / 110	3	1st	Coalition

Party leadersedit

Referencesedit

External linksedit

• Official website (in Russian)