- Communist Party of South Ossetia
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The Communist Party of South Ossetia (Ossetic: Хуссар Ирыстоны Коммунистон парти [Hussar Irystony Kommuniston parti]; Russian: Коммунистическая партия Южной Осетии) is a communist political party in South Ossetia, a partially recognized Caucasian republic, considered by most countries to be a part of Georgia. The party was founded in 1993. As of 2004, the party claimed a membership of 1500.[1] The party seeks recognition of the Republic of South Ossetia.[2]
KPYO is led by Stanislav Kochiev[3][4], who is also chairman and speaker of the South Ossetian Parliament. Yulia Tekhova is the deputy secretary of the party.[1]
In the March 1994 election, the party got 19 seats out of 36.[5]
In the South Ossetian presidential elections of November-December 2001, Kochiev collected 24% of the votes in the first round of the elections on November 18 and 40% in the second round on December 6, arriving second after Eduard Kokoity.
In the South Ossetian parliamentary elections of May 2004, KPYO won 24.7% of the popular vote and 4 out of 34 seats.
In the 2006 presidential election, the party supported the incumbent Eduard Kokoity. However, the party declared that it didn't support all policies of the government.[6]
The party is affiliated to the Union of Communist Parties-Communist Party of the Soviet Union.[4][7]
References
- ^ a b http://www.rol.ru/news/misc/newssng/04/04/30_047.htm
- ^ http://www.regnum.ru/news/611532.html
- ^ Hughes, J., & Sasse, G. (2002). Ethnicity and territory in the former Soviet Union: regions in conflict. The Cass series in regional and federal studies. London: F. Cass. p. 218
- ^ a b http://www.labyrinth.ru/content/card.asp?cardid=59676
- ^ http://poli.vub.ac.be/publi/ContBorders/eng/ch0103.htm
- ^ http://www.regnum.ru/news/725439.html
- ^ http://kprf.ru/kpss/
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