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Communist Party of Kazakhstan
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The Communist Party of Kazakhstan (Qazaqstan Kommunistik Partiyasi) is a political party in Kazakhstan.
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Communist Party of Kazakhstan was founded 1936 when Kazakhstan was granted a Union Republic status. Communist Party of Kazakhstan had been a branch of CPSU until the dissolution of Soviet Union.
The 18th Congress of Communist Party of Kazakhstan took a decision to rename the Communist Party as Socialist Party and split from CPSU. Nazarbayev resigned as the chairman of Communist Party. Dissatisfied members of the old Communist Party recreated the Communist Party of Kazakhstan in October 1991 at 19th Congress of the party. CPK was officially registered on February 28, 1994. Communist Party of Kazakhstan has a well-established party structure with offices in all of the oblasts. CPK is estimated to have around 70 thousand members.[1] CPK largely appeals to above-middle age segment of the population especially in Urban areas who have a strong nostalgia for Soviet times. The leader of CPK has been by Serikbolsyn Abdildin, a respected, old generation politician in Kazakhstan.
In the mid-1990's CPK participated in opposition coalition movements "Azamat" and "Pokolenie" ("Generation"). In 1996, CPK initiated unregistered "National-Patriotic Movement-Republic". In February 1998, it joined the opposition bloc "People’s front of Kazakhstan".[2]
The party split at the start of 2004 when a group led Vladislav Kosarev started accusing party First Secretary Serikbolsyn Abdildin of accepting money from questionable sources. The splinter party, the Communist People's Party of Kazakhstan, has failed to meet 50,000 membership requirement to be officially registered.
At the last legislative elections, 19 September and 3 October 2004, an alliance of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan and the Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan won 3.4 % of the popular vote and no seats. At the 4 December 2005 presidential elections, Communist Party of Kazakhstan, Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan and the Naghyz Ak Zhol Party formed a coalition movement, For a Just Kazakhstan and supported Zharmakhan Tuyakbay as presidential candidate.
- ^ Kazakhstan Votes 2005, http://www.rferl.org/specials/kazakh_votes/parties.aspx
- ^ Campaign Updates from Yevgeny Zhovtis,http://www.iicas.org/libr_en/kz/libr_21_05_06.htm
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