The Communist Party of Bulgaria (CPB, bg, Комунистическа Партия на България, КПБ, Komunisticheska Partiya na Bǎlgariya, KPB) is a

communist party A communist party is a political party that seeks to realize the socio-economic goals of communism. The term ''communist party'' was popularized by the title of ''The Manifesto of the Communist Party'' (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. ...

Bulgaria Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedo ...

, currently led by Aleksandar Paunov. The party was founded in 1996 as the Communist Party. Since 2001, it is part of the

Coalition for Bulgaria The BSP for Bulgaria ( bg, БСП за България, BSP za Bŭlgariya), or the Coalition for Bulgaria ( bg, Коалиция за България, Koalitsiya za Bŭlgariya) until 2017, is a left-wing electoral alliance in Bulgaria led by t ...

, an alliance led by the Bulgarian Socialist Party. The party publishes the newspaper ''Rabotnicheski Vestnik''. In the 2014 parliamentary election, the

received 15.4% of the popular vote and 39 out of 240 seats. The party remains represented in Parliament within the coalition after the 2017 election.

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* Political parties established in 1996 Bulgaria, Communist Party of Bulgaria 1996 establishments in Bulgaria Far-left political parties International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties {{Bulgaria-party-stub