Communist Party of Georgia (, ''Sakartvelos Komunisturi Partia'') 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. ...

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. The party was founded on 23 February 1992 as the Socialist Labour Party. It was registered at the Ministry of Justice on 27 February 1998. In the 1992 elections it won four MPs. During the period 1994–1995 it maintained a parliamentary fraction. In the 1995 elections it polled 3% of the votes. Ivan Tsiklauri is the First Secretary of the party. The main goal of the party is restoration of the socialist system. It publishes ''Komunisti-XXI''. In 1999 it claimed to have 15,000 members. The party has a youth organization, Komsomol. In 1991 and 1995 SKP supported the candidacies of

Eduard Shevardnadze Eduard Ambrosis dze Shevardnadze ( ka, ედუარდ ამბროსის ძე შევარდნაძე}, romanized: ; 25 January 1928 – 7 July 2014) was a Soviet and Georgian politician and diplomat who governed Georgia fo ...

. In the 1999 elections it ran in an electoral bloc called Bloc "Communists - Stalinists" together with the political party " Stalineli". For the 2000 presidential elections SKP nominated Ivan Tsiklauri, but the nomination was later withdrawn. The

Communist Party of Adzharia Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a ...

is an autonomous organization within SKP.

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