On 16 July 1992, the
Albanian parliament voted to ban the party and its
newspaper. A law that took effect in June allowed leaders of
political parties, members of parliament, and
government ministers to keep weapons and as the party was banned, its leader,
Hysni Milloshi, was arrested on 22 July 1992 for illegal weapons possession. The law banning the Communist Party of Albania was repealed in April 1998, and the PKSH became the first
communist party after 1991 to legally register at the Electoral Commission. In 2002, a fraction of PKSH split and merged into the refounded Albanian Party of Labour. In a 2006 unification congress, the Communist Party of Albania, Albanian Party of Labour and smaller communist parties merged as the Communist Party of Albania. 300 members of these parties participated in this congress and Hysni Milloshi was the leader of the unified party. In the
2005 parliamentary elections, the party gained 8,901 votes (0.7%) on the proportional list. However, at the
2013 elections, its number of votes declined sharply, gathering 899 votes nationwide. In the
2017 parliamentary elections, it gathered 1,029 votes (0.07%). PKSH publishes ('The Voice of Truth'). The youth wing of the party is known as the Communist Youth of Albania. == See also ==