Communist Party of Bulgaria

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Communist Party of Bulgaria Комунистическа Партия на България

Abbreviation	CPB
Leader	Aleksandar Paunov
Founded	1996; 26 years ago (1996)
Split from	Bulgarian Socialist Party
Headquarters	10th Building, Tsar Kaloyan St., Sofia
Newspaper	Rabotnicheski vestnik ("Workers' newspaper")
Membership (2017)	20,000
Ideology	Communism Marxism–Leninism
Political position	Far-left
National affiliation	BSP for Bulgaria
International affiliation	IMCWP
Colours	Red
Seats in the National Assembly	0 / 240
Seats in the European Parliament	0 / 17
Website
comparty.bg
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The Communist Party of Bulgaria (CPB, Bulgarian: Комунистическа Партия на България, КПБ, romanized: Komunisticheska Partiya na Bǎlgariya, KPB) is a communist party in Bulgaria, currently led by Aleksandar Paunov.

The party was founded in 1996 as the Communist Party.^[1] Since 2001 it is part of the Coalition for Bulgaria, an alliance led by the Bulgarian Socialist Party. The party publishes the newspaper Rabotnicheski Vestnik.^[1]

In the 2014 parliamentary election, the Coalition for Bulgaria received 15.4% of the popular vote and 39 out of 240 seats. The party remains represented in Parliament within the coalition after the 2017 election.^[2]

References[]

^ ^a ^b "Leftist Parties of Bulgaria". Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2007-06-03.
^ "Parliament.bg".

External links[]

Official website

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