Communist People's Party of Kazakhstan

Party logo 2004-2007.

The party arose as a result of the split of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan . The idea of ​​creating a party belongs to 12 members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan, who quit due to disagreements with the first secretary of the CPC Central Committee S. A. Abdildin ^[2] . The reason for the split with the CCP was the election of the deputy of the Mazhilis Tolen Tokhtasynov as secretary of the CCP ^[3] . About 15 thousand people from the CCP joined the KNPK. The constituent congress of KNPK was held in April 2004 , on June 21, 2004 the party was registered with the Ministry of Justice of Kazakhstan ^[2] .

Following the results of the Mazhilis elections in 2004, the Party received 1.98% of the vote (voting by the proportional system) and did not go to parliament ^[2] .

In 2005, a candidate for the presidency of Kazakhstan from KNPK was nominated by a deputy of the Mazhilis Erasyl Abylkasymov , who gained 0.34% of the vote ^[4] at the end of the election.

On March 28, 2007, KNPK and KPK held a joint press conference at which they announced the upcoming merger. Subsequently, KNPK refused to unite with the CCP due to acute political differences ^[2] . At a press conference in June 2007, the Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPPK Vladislav Kosarev named the main reason for the refusal that the Communist Party of Kazakhstan considered the issue of unification with the CPPK only at the highest level (Bureau of the Central Committee), while at the same time it was not provided for such consideration at the grassroots links. In addition, the CPPK leader noted that the CPC structures were completely destroyed and the party’s authority among the people was reduced to almost zero ^[5] .

In the elections to the Mazhilis in 2007, the party received 1.29% of the vote and did not go to parliament ^[1] .

On February 14, 2011, at the Extraordinary V Congress of the CPPK in Astana, the party’s presidential candidate was nominated by the Secretary of the Central Committee Zhambyl Akhmetbekov , who received the registration of the Central Election Commission of Kazakhstan on February 26 ^[6] .

The results of the exit poll of the International Institute for Regional Studies, conducted in Astana, showed that Nazarbayev scored 95.88%, Akhmetbekov - 1.74%, Kasymov - 1.31%, Eleusizov - 1.07% ^[8] . On April 5, the CEC of the RK announced the final election results, according to which incumbent President Nursultan Nazarbayev won 95.55% of the vote, Gani Kasymov - 1.94% of the voters, Zhambyl Akhmetbekov - 1.36%, Mels Eleusizov - 1.15% ^[9] .

On November 26, 2011, the VI Extraordinary Congress of the Communist People’s Party of Kazakhstan was held, at which 23 party candidates for the election of deputies of the Mazhilis of the Parliament of 2012 were approved, including party leader Vladislav Kosarev and presidential candidate in the 2011 elections Zhambyl Akhmetbekov ^[10] . On behalf of the Communist Party of Cuba, the congress came to support the first secretary of the Cuban embassy in Kazakhstan, Miguel Sanchez Ordonez ^[11] . On December 13, the KNPK list was registered with the Central Election Commission ^[12] . On January 17, 2012, the Central Election Commission of Kazakhstan announced the final results of the election of deputies of the lower house of parliament elected by party lists: the People's Democratic Party Nur Otan won, gaining 80.99% of the vote, and the Democratic Party of Kazakhstan Ak Zhol ”and the Communist People’s Party of Kazakhstan, which won 7.47 and 7.19% of the vote, respectively ^[13] . Thus, “Nur Otan” received 83 deputy mandates, “Ak Zhol” - 8, KNPK - 7 ^[14] . On January 18, the party determined the deputies of the Mazhilis of the V convocation from the CPPK, they were Zhambyl Akhmetbekov , Galina Baimakhanova , Tulesh Kenzhin , Vladislav Kosarev , Aikyn Konurov , Tursunbek Omurzakov , Boris Sorokin ^[15] .

The stated goal of the party is to move towards a society of genuine democracy, social justice, broad spirituality, freedom and a prosperous economy based on scientific and technological progress and the principles of scientific socialism. According to the ideology of KNPK, the center of society should be a person endowed with the fullness of civil rights and wide opportunities for the development and manifestation of his abilities and the satisfaction of diverse needs ^[16] .

To achieve this goal, the party sets itself the following tasks ^[16] :

• In the political sphere: the struggle for democratization, the conquest of power, the establishment of genuine democracy, the construction of the People's Republic of Kazakhstan, the recognition of forms of ownership that exclude the exploitation of man, namely: state, collective, private, joint-stock, cooperative.
• In the economic field - overcoming the raw material orientation in the development of the economy, introducing modern technologies in industry and agriculture, restoring state ownership of the basic sectors of the economy.
• In the social sphere, the restoration and expansion of the volume of social guarantees for the population that existed in the country before the reforms began ( 1990 ).
• In international relations - supporting the integration processes of the republic with the CIS countries , the fight against terrorism , wide international cooperation.

In terms of attitude to religion, the party stands on the positions of active atheistic propaganda . The party’s program says: “The Communists advocate recognition of freedom of conscience, the right to profess any religion or not profess any religion, to separate the church and mosque from the state, and schools from the church and mosque. At the same time, the Communists are conducting widespread atheist propaganda, avoiding the humiliation of insulting the feelings of believers in any form ” ^[17] . Although KNPK recognizes that one of the factors of the destruction of the USSR was “interference in culture, science, religion,” it does not call religious organizations its allies (in contrast to veteran, women's, and trade union structures) ^[17] .

Membership in KNPK is voluntary, individual, fixed, confirmed by a party ticket for citizens of Kazakhstan from the age of 18 ^[16] .

The organizational structure of KNPK is based on the territorial principle. The organizational basis of the party are the primary party organizations, which are created from three or more party members by decision of the meeting, which is approved by the district or city committee of the party. Branches and representative offices pursue party policies among the population, interact with state executive and representative bodies, political and public organizations, have their own stamp and letterhead ^[16] .

As of July 2010, there were 1868 primary party organizations, 178 district committees, 33 city committees, 14 regional committees and 2 city committees in the cities of republican significance ( Astana and Alma-Ata ) operating in KNPK.

The supreme body of KNPK is the congress convened by the Central Committee at least once every 4 years. The Party Central Committee organizes and coordinates the work of the entire party. Meetings of the Central Committee - plenums, are convened at least once every six months ^[16] .

The control bodies of the party are the Central Control and Revision Commission, elected by the Congress of KNPK, as well as the regional, city and district control and audit commissions created in the branches and representative offices of the party at party conferences together with their governing bodies, the control and audit commissions of primary party organizations, elected general meeting. The control and audit commissions are accountable to the supreme bodies that elected them, namely: party congresses, conferences of branches and representative offices, meetings of primary organizations ^[16] .

KNPK has a flag and emblem, which are approved by the party congress.

Until September 2013, the party’s flag was a red flag with a ratio of the flag’s width to its length. A bas-relief of V.I. Lenin was depicted on the upper part of the flag’s flag at a distance of the length of the flag from the flagpole. Along the upper part of the banner in Kazakh and Russian languages ​​there is an inscription: “Kazakhstan Communist Party of Halyk Party” - “KKHP”, “Communist People's Party of Kazakhstan” - “KNPK” ^[16] . The emblem of the party was an image of a sickle and a hammer , on the circumference of which an abbreviation of the name of the party was made in Kazakh and Russian (“KKHP”, “KNPK”) ^[16] .

In September 2013, the party introduced a new symbolism in which the sickle and hammer were replaced with a five-pointed star. According to the Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party, Aikyn Konurov, "the idea of ​​everyone in the head of the 1917 revolution confirmed that the sickle is a peasant, and the hammer is a proletarian." “The party is being rejuvenated, and today we do not have a clear idea of ​​who the peasant is and who the proletarian is, because we do not yet have industry as such, it is only getting on our knees, our agriculture is in the deepest decline, and therefore we decided that a five-pointed star is suitable. In 1923, for the first time, when a five-pointed star was placed on the emblem of the USSR - this star symbolized the unity of the proletariat of the whole world, five continents, but we expanded this concept and want people - the same office workers, the same workers in the IT sphere, and the service sector , understood that we protect their interests ” ^[18] .

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