The Party of the Bulgarian Communists ( bg, Партия на Българските комунисти, Partiya na Bulgarskite Komunisti, PBK) is a

communist party A communist party is a political party that seeks to realize the socio-economic goals of communism. The term ''communist party'' was popularized by the title of ''The Manifesto of the Communist Party'' (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. A ...

Bulgaria Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedon ...

, registered in 2006. The PBK was founded in February 1999 as the Bulgarian Communist Party "

Georgi Dimitrov Georgi Dimitrov Mihaylov (; bg, Гео̀рги Димитро̀в Миха̀йлов), also known as Georgiy Mihaylovich Dimitrov (russian: Гео́ргий Миха́йлович Дими́тров; 18 June 1882 – 2 July 1949), was a Bulgarian ...

" ( bg, Българска комунистическа партия "Георги Димитров, Bulgarska Komunisticheskaya Partiya "Georgi Dimitrov", BKP-GD) by the Initiative Committee for the Unification of the Communist Movement of Bulgaria. In January 2000 it was joined by the United Communist Party of Bulgaria ( bg, Българска единна комунистическа партия, Bulgarska Edinna Komunisticheska Partiya, BEKP). In 2005 the Marxist Platform of BSP joined the BKP-GD which received its present name on 15 July 2006. The party participated in the parliamentary elections of 1999 with the Alliance Coalition of Left Bulgaria which won 8,762 votes (0.2%) and no seats. In the local elections of 1999 the PBK won 36 seats and 18 mayoral posts. In 2003 it kept nine seats and five mayoral posts. In 2014 it took part in the parliamentary elections on the List of the BSP – Left Bulgaria winning no seat. The PBK publishes the newspaper ''Novo Rabotnichesko Delo'' ( bg, Ново работническо дело).

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