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Communist Party of Albania Partia Komuniste e Shqipërisë | |
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| General Secretary | Qemal Cicollari |
| Founder | Hysni Milloshi |
| Founded | December 14, 1991 (1991-12-14) |
| Split from | PPSH |
| Headquarters | Tirana |
| Newspaper | Zëri i së Vërtetës (The Voice of Truth) |
| Youth wing | Communist Youth of Albania |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Far-left |
| International affiliation | ICMLPO IMCWP |
| Seats inParliament | 0 / 140 |
TheCommunist Party of Albania (Albanian:Partia Komuniste e Shqipërisë, PKSh) is ananti-revisionistMarxist–Leninistcommunist party inAlbania. The party was formed in 1991,[1][2] as a split from theParty of Labour of Albania which converted itself into theSocialist Party of Albania. It upholdsEnver Hoxha andHoxhaism. The party was led byHysni Milloshi[3] until his death in 2012.
Nexhmije Hoxha, Enver Hoxha's wife, was a member of the party.
On 16 July 1992, theAlbanian parliament voted to ban the party and itsnewspaper. A law that took effect in June allowed leaders ofpolitical parties, members of parliament andgovernmentministers to keep weapons and as the party was banned, its leader,Hysni Milloshi, was arrested on 22 July 1992 for illegal weapons possession.[4]
The law banning the Communist Party of Albania was repealed in April 1998, and the PKSH became the first communist party after 1991 to legally register at the Electoral Commission.[5]
In 2002, a fraction of PKSH split and merged into that refounded the Albanian Party of Labour. In a 2006 unification congress, the Communist Party of Albania, Albanian Party of Labour and smaller communist parties merged as the Communist Party of Albania. 300 members of these parties participated in this congress and Hysni Milloshi was the leader of the unified party.
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In the2005 parliamentary elections, the party gained 8,901 votes (0.7%) on the proportional list. However, at the2013 elections its number of votes declined sharply, gathering 899 votes nationwide.[6] In2017 parliamentary elections it gathered 1,029 votes (0.07%).
PKSH publishesZëri i së Vërtetës ('The Voice of Truth'). The youth wing of the party is known as Communist Youth of Albania.