The Communist Party (PC) of Colombia regained its legal status, which was discharged in 1998 after losing a large part of its leadership in the massacre that followed in the 1980s of those who made up the Patriotic Union (UP).
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– Communist Party ☭ (@notipaco) December 7, 2021
“This decision is a recognition that the loss of the political rights of the PCC occurred within the framework of a systematic process of criminal persecution and stigmatization, which has also suffered different expressions of the alternative and opposition Colombian camp,” the force said in a release.
For the PC, with this one National Electoral Council (CNE) recognizes “the existence and political activity of communists as an important current of opinion and political action that must be surrounded by constitutional and legal guarantees.”
The text anticipates that the party will strengthen “the unitary flow” in which the communists were “committed, both in the construction of the Patriotic Union, and with the Historical Pact“.
The Covenant is a new left coalition that was put together for the presidential elections next year, with Colombia Humana, Todos Somos Colombia, UP, Comunes, Polo Democrático, Movimiento Alternativo Indígena y Social (MAIS), Soy Porque Somos and la Fuerza de la Paz, among other stamps.
“The Communist Party ratifies its commitments to unity, action and fight for democracy in peace and socialism,” the statement said.
In recent weeks, other parties have also regained their legal status, including Oxigeno Verde, Salvación Nacional, and Nuevo Liberalismo.
The Colombian Communist Party emerged in 1930 and he joined the UP in the 90s, but suffered the departure of entire currents of militants, the assassinations of his Organization secretaries, Miller Chacón, and general, Manuel Cedpeda Vargas, and in 1998 his legal status was withdrawn when the mandate expired. of the only councilor who was left in Bogotá.
