Communist Party of Kazakhstan

The Communist Party of Kazakhstan (Kazakh: Қазақстан Коммунистік партиясы, Qazaqstan Kommýnıstik Partııasy, QKP; Russian: Коммунистическая партия Казахстана) is a banned political party in Kazakhstan.[1]

This article is about the party founded in 1991. For the party which existed from 1936 to 1991 and ruled Soviet Kazakhstan, see Communist Party of Kazakhstan (Soviet Union).

Communist Party of Kazakhstan

Қазақстан Коммунистік партиясы
Qazaqstan Kommýnıstik Partııasy
AbbreviationQKP
General SecretaryLeonid Korolkov (first)
Gaziz Aldamzharov (last)
FoundedOctober 1991
Banned4 September 2015 (2015-09-04)
Preceded byCommunist Party of Kazakhstan
IdeologyCommunism
Marxism–Leninism
Left-wing populism
Website
comparty.kz

Origin

The Communist Party of Kazakhstan was founded 1936, when Kazakhstan was granted a Union Republic status within the Soviet Union. The Communist Party of Kazakhstan had been a branch of Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) until the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Post-Soviet restructuring
Serikbolsyn Abdildin, party leader from 1996 to 2010

The 18th Congress of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan took a decision to rename the Communist Party as the Socialist Party and split from CPSU. Nursultan Nazarbayev, the party chairman, resigned when he became the first President of Kazakhstan in 1991. Dissatisfied members of the old Communist Party recreated the Communist Party of Kazakhstan in October 1991 at the 19th Congress of the party. The QKP was officially registered on 27 August 1998. The Communist Party of Kazakhstan has a well-established party structure with offices in all of the oblasts. The QKP was estimated to have around 70 thousand members.[2] QKP 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 QKP was Serikbolsyn Abdildin, a respected, old generation politician in Kazakhstan.

In the mid 1990's, the QKP 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".[3]

The party became split on 13 April 2004, when a group led by 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 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.

Party activities were suspended in 2012 by a regional court because of alleged cooperation with the banned party Alga! which has links to fugitive politician Mukhtar Ablyazov.[4]

The party was banned in 2015 by the Almaty city court because the number of party members was below the legal number of 40,000. The sentence was denounced as politically motivated by the party leaders, and was condemned by the Communist Party of Greece, the Russian Communist Workers' Party and the Communist Party, Turkey.[5]

First Secretaries
  1. Leonid Korolkov (1992 – October 1994)
  2. Baidabek Tolepbaev (October 1994 – April 1996)
  3. Serikbolsyn Abdildin (April 1996 – 17 April 2010)
  4. Gaziz Aldamzharov (17 April 2010 – 4 September 2015)

See also

References
  1. Коммунистическую партию Казахстана ликвидировали по решению суда
  2. Kazakhstan Votes 2005, "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 19 February 2007. Retrieved 7 February 2007.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. Campaign Updates from Yevgeny Zhovtis, "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 14 July 2007. Retrieved 7 February 2007.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. Kilner, James (26 April 2012). "Kazakhstan extends ban on Communist Party". ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  5. "Communist Party of Kazakhstan has been banned | international communist press". icp.sol.org.tr. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
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