Communist Party of Georgia
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Communist Party of Georgia (Georgian: ?????? ???, Sakartvelos Komunisturi Partia) is a communist political party in Georgia. The party was founded on February 231992 as the Socialist Labour Party. It was registered at the Ministry of Justice on February 27, 1998. In the1992 elections it won four MPs. During the period 1994-1995 it maintained a parliamentary fraction. In the 1995 elections it polled 3% of the votes.
Ivan Tsiklauri is the First Secretary of the party. The main goal of the party is restoration of the socialist system. It publishes Komunisti-XXI. In 1999 it claimed to have 15,000 members. The party has a youth organization, Komsomol.
In 1991 and 1995 SKP supported the candidacies of Eduard Shevardnadze.
In the 1999 elections it ran in an electoral bloc called Bloc "Communists - Stalinists" together with the Political Party "Stalineli".
For the 2000 presidential elections SKP had nominated Ivan Tsiklauri, but the nomination was later withdrawn.
The Communist Party of Adzharia is an autonomous organization with SKP.
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The United Communist Party of Georgia ((Georgian: ?????? ?????? ???, Sakartvelos Ertiani Komunisturi Partia, abbreviated SEKP) is a political party in Georgia. It was founded in 1994 through the merger of the Stalin Society, the Georgian Workers Communist Party and the Union of Communists of Georgia.
The party is led by Panteleimon Giorgadze. His son Igor Giorgadze was forced into exile after being accused of plotting to assassinate Eduard Shevardnadze.
The party publishes Komunisti.
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New Communist Party of Georgia (Georgian: ??? ?????? ???, Sakartvelos Achali Komunisturi Partia), is a political party in Georgia. Founded in 2001 by Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, the grandson of Joseph Stalin. Dzhugashvili later left the position as party leader.
The party symbol is a hedgehog.
The party participated in the June 2004 elections in Adjara.
The party is affiliated to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union of Oleg Shenin.