The founding congress of the New Communist Party of Yugoslavia (NKPJ) was held on 30 June 1990 in Belgrade. The Congress (Founding Assembly) was held in the hall of the Association of Engineers and Technicians of Serbia, with the participation of 265 delegates from all republics of the
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The delegates present decided that the party should be named the New Communist Movement of Yugoslavia (NKPJ). That name was valid until 1995, when it was changed to today's New Communist Party of Yugoslavia (NKPJ). Following the
2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, and the dissolution of
Serbia and Montenegro, the Montenegrin branch of the party continued as the
New Communist Party of Montenegro (NKPCG). The party boycotted the
2007 parliamentary election, because of its position that the electoral law violated fundamental democratic principles and the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In 2010 the party was removed from the list of registered parties after failing to re-register under the new electoral law. Due to the removal from the list of registered parties NKPJ decided to
boycott the
2014 parliamentary election as well as all local elections and not join any coalitions. They interrupted several meetings of other
political parties urging for
boycott of the elections and claiming they were illegal.
Modern period (2017–present) In March 2020, NKPJ announced their participation in the
2020 parliamentary election. They submitted their list on 5 June, and they failed to give signatures after its deadline was extended for two days. In late December 2021, they announced their participation in the upcoming
2022 general election. Belgrade was the host of the 2022 (MECYO) which the NKPJ's SKOJ is member of. Delegates of 22 youth communist organisations agreed on a declaration that denounced
anti-communist repression in the European Union, reissued solidarity with Ukrainian communist activists Mikhail and Aleksander Kononovich who were arrested and detained as political prisoners by the
SBU on charges of "pro-Russian views and pro-Belarusian views", denounced "capitalist exploitation and imperialist wars" as well as the "NATO occupation of
Kosovo and Metohija"; having taken part in a protester march along central Belgrade chanting anti-NATO slogans the day earlier. == Ideology ==