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President
  
Josip Joška Broz (sr)

Founder
  
Josip Joška Broz (sr)

Secretary-General
  
Miroslav Jovanović

Communist Party (Serbia)

Founded
  
28 November 2010 (2010-11-28)

Headquarters
  
Uralska 9 11060 Belgrade

Ideology
  
Communism Marxism–Leninism Titoism

The Communist Party (Serbian: Комунистичка партија / Komunistička partija, KP) is a communist party in Serbia. It was founded in Belgrade on the 28 November 2010, after two smaller communist parties (the New communist party of Serbia (NKPS) and the Social-Democrats from Novi Sad) united with a group of communists led by Josip Joška Broz.

Contents

Its president is Josip Joška Broz (grandson of the former president of Yugoslavia and the SKJ, Josip Broz Tito) and the Secretary- General is Miroslav Jovanović.

Organisation

The head of the party is the President, next in the hierarchy is the Secretary-General and after him is the party's Central Committee. The party is split into committees led by a Committee Secretarie and also into basic organizations led by Commissioners. The youth organization of the party is the Communist Youth. All adult citizens can become members of the party.

Elections

The Communist Party competed in the 2012 parliamentary elections independently, receiving 28.977 votes or 0.74% of the popular vote, failing to enter parliament. Similar situation happened in the 2014 Serbian parliamentary elections when Communist Party (in coalition with Montenegrin Party) receiving 6.388 votes or 0,18% of the popular vote and again failing to enter parliament. However, for the 2016 parliamentary elections, the Communist Party joined a coalition led by the Socialist Party of Serbia receiving 413.770 votes or 10,95% of the popular vote and entered the Parliament of Serbia and also the Parliament of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina.

References

Communist Party (Serbia) Wikipedia