Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain Partido Comunista de los Pueblos de España | |
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| General Secretary | Julio Díaz |
| Founded | 15 December 1984 |
| Headquarters | Madrid |
| Youth wing | Communist Youth of the Peoples of Spain |
| Ideology | Communism Marxism–Leninism Hard Euroscepticism Internationalism Anti-capitalism |
| Political position | Far-left |
| National affiliation | United Left (1986–1988) |
| European affiliation | INITIATIVE (formerly) |
| International affiliation | IMCWP World Anti-Imperialist Platform[1] |
| Colours | Red |
| Local Government | 4 / 67,121 |
| Website | |
| www.pcpe.es | |
Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (Spanish:Partido Comunista de los Pueblos de España) is aMarxist–Leninistcommunist party inSpain. PCPE was founded out of the unification of severalMarxist–Leninist factions. The youth organization is called the Communist Youth of the Peoples of Spain.
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From 13–15 December 1984, a "Communist Unity Congress" was held inMadrid.Partido Comunista de España Unificado (PCEU,Unified Communist Party of Spain),Movimiento de Recuperación del PCE (MRPCE,Movement for the Recuperation of the PCE),Movimiento para la Recuperación y Unificación del PCE (MRUPCE,Movement for the Recuperation and Unification of the PCE),Candidatura Comunista (CC,Communist Candidature), and some minor groups unified themselves, thus creatingPartido Comunista (renamed PCPE in 1986).
All these groups had surged from splits from theCommunist Party of Spain (PCE) during the 1970s and 1980s. Quickly after its foundation, PCPE was recognized by some other parties, such as theCommunist Party of the Soviet Union and other state-bearing[clarification needed]Eastern bloc parties. The party was formed by those who were againstSantiago Carrillo'sEurocommunistline in the PCE. TheCatalan referent of PCPE was initiallyParty of Communists of Catalonia (PCC), but it later broke with PCPE and now the Catalan referent is the Communist Party of the Peoples of Catalonia.
PCPE briefly joinedIzquierda Unida in 1987. In 2000, theSpanish Communist Workers' Party (PCOE) merged with PCPE, and the publication of the united party becameUnidad y Lucha.
In 2021, the PCPE formed a coalition with the reconstitutedSpanish Communist Workers' Party (PCOE) for theMadrid regional election as the Coalition for Communist Unity.[2]
In2023, the party decided, for first time since1989, to not contest the election independently. The PCPE is calling for anull vote, calling the election an "imperative need of the bourgeois state to urgently rebuild the power bloc that guarantees the necessary institutional stability, for the management of the oligarchic interests represented by theIbex35, theEU andEuropean Central Bank, in the context of the general crisis of capitalism".[3] However the party is contesting the twoCanary Island constituencies in a coalition withAhora Canarias.
In April 2017 the PCPE suffered a major split. During the fifth plenary session of thecentral committee a minority of the committee recognizedÁstor García as the newsecretary general of the party, however a majority continued to recognize the incumbent (since 2002) secretary generalCarmelo Suárez. The group around Ástor García created a new competing website of the PCPE.
Both PCPE-Suárez and PCPE-García were recognized by different communist parties as the legitimate PCPE.[4][5][6][7] A majority of theCollectives of Communist Youth membership pledged allegiance to PCPE-García.[8][9]
For the next two years both groups would compete for the PCPE name and international recognition. This dispute was finally resolved in March 2019 when the PCPE-García relinquished its claim to the PCPE name and renamed itself to theCommunist Party of the Workers of Spain (Partido Comunista de los Trabajadores de España, PCTE).[10][11]
PCPE publishesUnidad y Lucha andPropuesta Comunista (atheoretical journal). Before the PCOE-PCPE merger, the main publication of the party wasNuevo Rumbo.
| Election | Leader | Votes | % | # | Seats | Outcome | Notes | |
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| 1986 | Ignacio Gallego | 935,504 | 4.63 | #5 | 1 / 350 | 0 / 208 | PSOE majority | WithinUnited Left |
| 1989 | Juan Ramos Camarero | 62,664 | 0.31 | #20 | 0 / 350 | 0 / 208 | PSOE minority | |
| 1993 | 10,233 | 0.04 | #31 | 0 / 350 | 0 / 208 | PSOE minority | ||
| 1996 | 14,513 | 0.06 | #21 | 0 / 350 | 0 / 208 | PP minority | ||
| 2000 | 12,898 | 0.06 | #29 | 0 / 350 | 0 / 208 | PP majority | ||
| 2004 | Carmelo Suárez | 12,979 | 0.05 | #29 | 0 / 350 | 0 / 208 | PSOE minority | |
| 2008 | 20,030 | 0.08 | #26 | 0 / 350 | 0 / 208 | PSOE minority | ||
| 2011 | 26,254 | 0.11 | #21 | 0 / 350 | 0 / 208 | PP majority | ||
| 2015 | 31,179 | 0.12 | #18 | 0 / 350 | 0 / 208 | New election | ||
| 2016 | 26,627 | 0.11 | #15 | 0 / 350 | 0 / 208 | PP minority | ||
| April 2019 | 17,101 | 0.07 | #24 | 0 / 350 | 0 / 208 | New election | ||
| November 2019 | 14,023 | 0.06 | #26 | 0 / 350 | 0 / 208 | PSOE andPodemos minority | ||
| 2023 | 1,640 | 0.01 | #36 | 0 / 350 | 0 / 208 | PSOE andSumar minority | in a coalition withAhora Canarias | |
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