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' Party of Spain–Communist Unity (in

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: ''Partido de los Trabajadores de España–Unidad Comunista'') was a communist

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, founded by

Santiago Carrillo Santiago José Carrillo Solares (18 January 1915 – 18 September 2012) was a Spanish politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) from 1960 to 1982. His role in the Paracuellos massacres during the Civil ...

and his followers after their expulsion from the

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(PCE) in October 1985.

History

Initially, the party was known as Communist Party of Spain (Revolutionary Marxist) (''Partido Comunista de España (Marxista-Revolucionario)''), a name still registered at the election authorities,Partidos políticos. MIR. PCE (M-R)
/ref> and related to the line of Carrillo in the PCE throughout the 1970s, as the party ideology of PCE under his leadership was redefined from Marxism-Leninism to Revolutionary

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. PTE-UC participated in the 1986 general election with the candidature Communists' Unity Board (''Mesa para la Unidad de los Comunistas''), which gathered 229,695 votes (1.1%). In the municipal elections of 1987, PTE-UC got 185,104 votes and had 179 town councillors elected. Carrillo stood as a candidate for the

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of 1987, and got 222,680 votes (1.1%). The 1989 general elections were a complete failure, as PTE-UC only got 86,257 votes. Following the result, PTE-UC merged into the

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in 1991, and organized itself as an internal tendency called Left Unity (''Unidad de la Izquierda''). Its president

withdrew from politics.

Election results

References

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