The Communist Party of the Workers of Spain ( es, Partido Comunista de los Trabajadores de España, abbreviated PCTE) is a

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. The PCTE was founded on March 3, 2019 as the result of a split in the

Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain ( es, Partido Comunista de los Pueblos de España) is a Marxist–Leninist communist party in Spain. PCPE was founded out of the unification of several Marxist-Leninist factions. The youth organization is ...

(PCPE). The youth organization of the PCTE is called the

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History

The PCTE contested both the

April 2019 Spanish general election The April 2019 Spanish general election was held on Sunday, 28 April 2019, to elect the 13th Cortes Generales of the Kingdom of Spain. All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as 208 of 266 seats in the Senate. Fol ...

(14,189 votes, 0.05%) and the election for the European Parliament (19,081, 0.09%). On the same day of the European parliament election the PCTE competed in five regional elections and in sixteen

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. It won two seats in the former

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municipality of

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in southwestern

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. It also supported the local list (ACPT), which also won two seats. At the November 2019 election the PCTE is fielding candidates in 37 provinces, compared to the 27 provinces the party contested at the previous election.

Election results

References

External links

Party website
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