The Communist Party ( nl, Kommunistische Partij, often abbreviated KP) was a

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. It was founded in 1989 in the aftermath of the split of the

Communist Party of Belgium french: Parti Communiste de Belgique , abbreviation = KPB-PCB , colorcode = , leader1_title = Historical leaders , leader1_name = Joseph JacquemotteJulien LahautLouis Van Geyt , founder = Julien Lahaut , founded = , dissolved = , merge ...

along linguistic lines. The political secretary of the KP was Jaak Perquy. KP was dissolved in 2009. The KP published a newspaper, ''Agora''. The youth wing evolved into Graffiti Jeugddienst, an apolitical youth association, in the early 1990s. Later another youth wing, Jong-KP, was established.

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