The Communist Party of Belarus (CPB; russian: Коммунисти́ческая па́ртия Белару́си, Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Belarusi; be, Камуністы́чная па́ртыя Белару́сі, Kamunistyčnaja Partyja Bielarusi) is a

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and

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Belarus Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by R ...

. The party was created in 1996 and supports the government of president Alexander Lukashenko. The leader of the party is Aliaksiej Sokal. The party has had more seats in the National Assembly of Belarus than any other party since the

2000 Belarusian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Belarus on 15 October 2000, with further rounds of voting on 29 October, 18 March and 1 April. The vast majority of successful candidates, 94 of 110, were independents.Nohlen & Stöver, p261 Voter turnout was r ...

, the first national election it participated in. However, most seats in the Belarusian legislature are held by

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Overview

The party suggested merging with the Party of Communists of Belarus (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 Sergey Ivanovich Kalyakin, ''Siarhiej Ivanavič Kaliakin''russian: Серге́й Ива́нович Каля́кин (born 16 June 1952) is a Belarusian opposition politician who is the current leader of the Belarusian Left Party "A Just Wo ...

, the chairman of the PKB, the so-called "re-unification" of the two parties was a plot designed to oust the opposition PKB. 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

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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." At the 2004 parliamentary election, the KPB obtained 5.99% and 8 out of 110 seats in the House of Representatives, 6 seats in

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and even less in

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- 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

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, 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

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, the Communist Party of Belarus participated in a meeting in support of Alexander Lukashenko.

Electoral history

Presidential elections

Legislative elections

Party leaders

References

External links

* {{Belarusian political parties 1996 establishments in Belarus Communist parties in Belarus Far-left political parties International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties Neo-Sovietism Political parties established in 1996 Political parties in Belarus Eurosceptic parties