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The
Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (
Czech:
Komunistická strana Čech a Moravy,
KSČM) is a political party in the
Czech Republic. It has a membership of 107,813 and is a member party of the
European United Left - Nordic Green Left bloc in the
European Parliament. It is also the only former ruling party in post-communist Eastern Europe not to drop the
communist title from its name, although it changed the program to suit laws adopted after 1989.
It was formed in
1989 by the Extraordinary Congress of the
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia which decided to create a party for the territories of
Bohemia and
Moravia, the areas that were to become the
Czech Republic. Previously it had followed the pattern of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union, where there were distinct 'national' parties for regions inhabited by culturally and linguisitically distinct national minorities, but not for the dominant nationality.
In
1990 the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia became a federation of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia and the
Communist Party of Slovakia. Later, the Communist Party of Slovakia changed its name to the
Party of the Democratic Left and the federation broke up in
1992.
After the party's second congress in
1992, several groups split away. The
Party of the Democratic Left and The
Party of the Left Bloc were the most important ones, and they eventually merged into the
Party of Democratic Socialism. This party does some joint work with the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia.
Another split was the formation of the
Party of Czechoslovak Communists (later renamed the
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia). However, the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia refuses to work with this group.
In June
2002, the CPBM received 18.5% of the vote for the Czech Republic's Chamber of Deputies. This made them the third largest party in Parliament, with 41 deputies.
In June
2004 the party came in second place in the
European Parliament election in the Czech Republic, winning 6 of 24 seats.
In June
2006 parliamentary elections the party scored 12.8%, coming in third and far behind the Social Democrats and sinking to 26 mandates. The leadership showed its disappointment with regard to the party's 2002 results.
After a long-running battle with the Ministry of the Interior, the KSCM's youth section - the Communist Youth Union (KSM) - was dissolved, allegedly for endorsing in its program the replacement of private with collective ownership of the means of production. The decision has met with international protests.
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