Communist Party of Bulgaria

Template:Short description Template:Distinguish Template:More citations needed Template:Infobox political party The Communist Party of Bulgaria (CPB)Template:Efn is a communist party in Bulgaria, currently led by Aleksandar Paunov.

The party was founded in 1996 as the Communist Party.<ref name="left">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Since 2001, it is part of the Coalition for Bulgaria, an alliance led by the Bulgarian Socialist Party. The party publishes the newspaper Rabotnicheski Vestnik.<ref name="left"/> In the 2014 parliamentary election, the Coalition for Bulgaria received 15.4% of the popular vote and 39 out of 240 seats. The party remains represented in Parliament within the coalition after the 2017 election.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The party came under fire during the 2020 protests, when it was alleged that first secretary, Aleksandar Paunov, had had a phone call with convicted businessman Vasil Bozhkov.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Alexander Paunov went on to admit that the conversation took place, however denied any wrongdoing.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> This led to Alexander Paunov being asked to leave the BSP for Bulgaria parliamentary group, of which he was a part, becoming an independent MP.