Communist Party of Malta

Communist Party of Malta (Maltese: Partit Komunista Malti) is a communist party in Malta. PKM was founded in 1969 at a secret congress in the town of Gwardamangia, following the departure from the Malta Labour Party of a group of left-wing militants that had been active in the struggle for national independence.^[1] Anthony Vassallo was the founding general secretary of the party.^[1] The party first contested the national general elections of 1987 when it obtained 0.1% of first preference votes and no parliamentary seats.^[2] Since then it has not stood for any other election whether at a European, national or local level.^[3]

The present secretary of the party is Victor Degiovanni who took over the post from Anthony Vassallo in 2004.

References

1 2 International Communist Affairs. Yearbook on international communist affairs: 1983. Stanford, Calif: Hoover Inst. Pr, 1983. p. 458
↑ Malta: Political Parties
↑ http://www.maltadata.com/abbrev.htm

External links

Blog of Communist Party of Malta

Political parties in Malta

Represented in Parliament	Labour (39) Nationalist (30)

Other recognized parties	Democratic Alternative Imperium Europa

Defunct parties	Anti-Reform Christian Workers' Constitutional Democratic Action Democratic Nationalist (1921–1926) Democratic Nationalist (1959–1966) Gozo Jones Libertas Malta Malta Workers Party Maltese Political Union National Action National Progressive Constitutionalist Communist

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