Transnistrian Communist Party

The PKP first fielded candidates in the 2005 legislative election but did not win any seats.

Nadezhda Bondarenko, an editor of the official party newspaper Pravda Pridnestrovya and a member of the party's central committee, was the PKP's candidate in the 2006 presidential election. She received 8.1% of the vote, coming second to Smirnov, who won his fourth term in office with 82.4% of the vote.{{cite web|url=http://www.kyivpost.com/bn/26260/|title=Trans-Dniester separatist authorities in eastern Moldova detain opposition leaders - Mar. 12, 2007|date=12 March 2007|access-date=30 September 2018}}

Khorzhan and Bondarenko were arrested on 11 March 2007 while handing out leaflets ahead of an anti-Smirnov rally, and were sentenced to three days' detention as an administrative punishment. Two days later on 13 March, a communist demonstration took place in the capital Tiraspol against growing consumer prices and energy tariffs. Demonstrators also demanded the release of the two detained PKP leaders.{{cn|date=May 2023}}

During Yevgeny Shevchuk's term as President of Transnistria from 2011 to 2016, PKP legislative members supported nearly all of his initiatives, even unpopular ones such as the reduction of government salaries and pensions by 30%.{{cite web|url=https://www.ziarulnational.md/masuri-anticriza-in-transnistria-firmele-off-shore-vor-plati-impozite/|title=Măsuri anticriză în Transnistria. Firmele off-shore vor plăti impozite|access-date=30 September 2018}} Party leaders insisted however, that they were legitimate opposition to Shevchuk, and rejected accusations of being fake opposition.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebDCjiEjC8w |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211213/ebDCjiEjC8w |archive-date=2021-12-13 |url-status=live|title=Тройственный союз. Хоржан – Шевчук – Молдова|last=Первый Приднестровский|date=15 October 2017|access-date=30 September 2018|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}

Transnistrian authorities arrested Khorzhan again on 6 June 2018, this time for allegedly assaulting law enforcement.{{cite web|url=https://ru.crimemoldova.com/news/politika/zaderzhan-pridnestrovskiy-deputat-oleg-khorzhan-/|title=Задержан приднестровский депутат Олег Хоржан|access-date=30 September 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://www.cpusa.org/article/international-notes-july-13|title=International Notes: July 13|first=Emile Schepers, CPUSA International|last=Department|date=13 July 2018|access-date=30 September 2018}} Several other party members had been arrested by authorities prior to Khorzhan,{{cite web|url=http://cprf.ru/2018/06/freedom-to-oleg-khorzhan|title=Freedom to Oleg Khorzhan!|website=cprf.ru|access-date=30 September 2018}} including his wife, his son, and Tiraspol city council deputy Alexander Samoniy.{{cite web |title=Приднестровские власти арестовали всех депутатов от оппозиции |url=http://www.moldova.org/ru/%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B5-%D0%B2%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8-%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8-%D0%B2/ |access-date=8 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328104014/https://www.moldova.org/ru/%d0%bf%d1%80%d0%b8%d0%b4%d0%bd%d0%b5%d1%81%d1%82%d1%80%d0%be%d0%b2%d1%81%d0%ba%d0%b8%d0%b5-%d0%b2%d0%bb%d0%b0%d1%81%d1%82%d0%b8-%d0%b0%d1%80%d0%b5%d1%81%d1%82%d0%be%d0%b2%d0%b0%d0%bb%d0%b8-%d0%b2/ |archive-date=28 March 2019 |url-status=dead }} On 3 November 2018, the Supreme Court of Transnistria found Khorzan guilty of his alleged crimes, and he was sentenced to four and a half years in prison and ordered to pay a hefty fine.{{cite news |title=Лидера компартии Приднестровья приговорили к 4,5 годам тюрьмы |url=https://regnum.ru/news/2512950.html |access-date=12 December 2018 |work=Regnum |date=3 November 2018}}

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