In 2006, the party suggested merging with the
Belarusian Party of Communists (PKB), later known as the Belarusian Left Party "A Just World". While the Communist Party of Belarus is a pro-Lukashenko party, the PKB was one of the major opposition parties in Belarus. According to
Sergey Kalyakin, the chairman of the PKB, the so-called "re-unification" of the two parties was a plot designed to oust the opposition PKB. The main foreign policy goal of strengthening the party proclaimed national security through the development of Belarus-Russia
Union State and the phase reconstruction voluntarily renewed Union nations, strengthening its political and economic independence. The CPB is part of the
Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union (UCP–CPSU) and the
International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties (IMCWP); it enjoys relations with other communist parties in
post-Soviet states and throughout the world to a much greater extent than the PKB, which is affiliated with the
Party of the European Left and the
Belarusian opposition. However, the PKB has moderated to a Left-wing populist position, albeit still holds a level of
Soviet patriotism. At the
2004 parliamentary election, the CPB obtained 5.99% and 8 out of 110 seats in the
House of Representatives, 6 seats in
2008 and even less in
2012 - where it won 3 seats. Because of the party's support for President Lukashenko, 17 of its members were appointed by him in the country's
upper house, the
Council of the Republic of Belarus, in 2012. In 2014, the party increased its representation by obtaining 5 seats. The party improved its result in the 2016 parliamentary elections, where it won 8 seats and then further increased it in the 2019 elections - where it won 11 seats. During the
2020–21 Belarusian protests, the Communist Party of Belarus participated in a meeting in support of
Alexander Lukashenko. == Election results ==