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Union of Communists of Armenia ( hy, Հայաստանի կոմունիստների միություն) was 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 Engel ...
in
Armenia Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia.The UNbr>classification of world regions places Armenia in Western Asia; the CIA World Factbook , , and ''O ...
.


History

Prior to the
2003 Armenian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Armenia on 25 May 2003. There were 56 constituency seats and 75 elected on a national basis using proportional representation. They saw the Republican Party of Armenia emerge as the largest party, with 33 of t ...
, the party formed part of the Free and Fair Armenia electoral bloc together with the
Marxist Party of Armenia The Marxist Party of Armenia ( hy, Հայաստանի մարքսիստական կուսակցություն, ''Hayastani Marksistakan Kusaktsutiun'') was a political party in Armenia. History Prior to the 2003 Armenian parliamentary election, the ...
. However, the bloc was denied registration on the ground that neither of the two parties had submitted proper registration. On 7 July the same year, the Union of Communists of Armenia dissolved as party members merged with the
United Communist Party of Armenia The United Communist Party of Armenia ( hy, Հայաստանի Միավորված Կոմունիստական Կուսակցության, abbreviated hy, ՀՄԿԿ / HMKK, ''Hayastani Miatsial Komunistakan Kusaktsutyun'') is a communist political pa ...
.


See also

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List of political parties in Armenia This article lists political parties in Armenia. Armenia has a multi-party system with numerous political parties, who mostly work with each other to form coalition governments, with some parties having a history of changing in and out of governme ...
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Politics of Armenia The politics of Armenia take place in the framework of the parliamentary representative democratic republic of Armenia, whereby the President of Armenia is the head of state and the Prime Minister of Armenia the head of government, and of a mul ...
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Programs of political parties in Armenia This article lists political parties of the National Assembly of Armenia and represents their programs. Armenia became an independent state in 1991, after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Since then, many political parties were formed in it, who ...


References

Communist parties in Armenia Defunct political parties in Armenia {{CP-stub