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|name               = Workers' Party of Spain–Communist Unity
|native_name        = Partido de los Trabajadores de España–Unidad Comunista
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|secretary_general  = [[Santiago Carrillo]]
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|founded            = {{Start date|1985}}<ref>[http://elpais.com/diario/1985/10/18/espana/498438015_850215.html Carrillo comienza a construir su nuevo partido.]</ref>
|dissolved          = {{Start date|1991}}
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|split              = [[Communist Party of Spain]]
|merged             = [[Partido Socialista Obrero Español|PSOE]]<ref>[http://elpais.com/diario/1991/10/27/espana/688518006_850215.html El partido de Carrillo celebra su último congreso antes de integrarse hoy en el PSOE]</ref>
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|membership_year    = 1991
|membership         = 8,000<ref>«[http://elpais.com/diario/1991/02/13/espana/666399603_850215.html Carrillo no entrará en el PSOE cuando su partido ingrese como corriente organizada]». El País. 13 de marzo de 1991. Consultado el 2010.</ref>
|ideology           = '''Until 1989:'''
*[[Eurocommunism]]
*[[Revolutionary Socialism|Revolutionary Marxism]]
'''1989–1991:'''
*[[Democratic socialism]]
*[[Postcommunism]]
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'''Workers' Party of Spain–Communist Unity''' (in [[Spanish language|Spanish]]: ''Partido de los Trabajadores de España–Unidad Comunista'') was a [[Communism|communist]] [[political party]] in [[Spain]], founded by [[Santiago Carrillo]] and his followers after their expulsion from the [[Communist Party of Spain (main)|Communist Party of Spain]] (PCE) in October 1985.

==History==
Initially, the party was known as '''Communist Party of Spain (Revolutionary Marxist)''' (''Partido Comunista de España (Marxista-Revolucionario)''), a name still registered at the election authorities,<ref>[http://www.elecciones.mir.es/partidos/r_partidos_p.htm Partidos políticos. MIR. PCE (M-R)]</ref> and related to the line of Carrillo in the [[Communist Party of Spain|PCE]] throughout the 1970s, as the party ideology of [[Communist Party of Spain|PCE]] under his leadership was redefined from [[Marxism-Leninism]] to Revolutionary [[Marxism]].

PTE-UC participated in the [[1986 Spanish general election|1986 general election]] with the candidature [[Communists' Unity Board]] (''Mesa para la Unidad de los Comunistas''), which gathered 229,695 votes (1.1%). In the municipal elections of 1987, PTE-UC got 185,104 votes and had 179 town councillors elected. Carrillo stood as a candidate for the [[1987 European Parliament election in Spain|European Parliament election]] of 1987, and got 222,680 votes (1.1%).

The [[1989 Spanish general election|1989 general elections]] were a complete failure, as PTE-UC only got 86,257 votes. Following the result, PTE-UC merged into the [[Spanish Socialist Workers' Party]] in 1991, and organized itself as an internal tendency called Left Unity (''Unidad de la Izquierda''). Its president [[Santiago Carrillo]] withdrew from politics.

== Election results ==

=== Cortes Generales ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
! width="75"| Election
! Leading candidate
! width="70"| Votes
! width="70"| %
! Seats
! width="35"| +/–
|-
! [[1986 Spanish general election|1986]]
| [[Santiago Carrillo]]
| 229,695
| 1.14 (#8)
| {{Composition bar|0|350|hex={{party color|Vox (political party)}}}}
| New
|-
! [[1989 Spanish general election|1989]]
|[[Adolfo Piñedo]]
| 86,257
| 0.42 (#15)
| {{Composition bar|0|350|hex={{party color|Vox (political party)}}}}
| –
|}

=== European Parliament ===
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|-
! width="75"| Election
! Leading candidate
! width="70"| Votes
! width="70"| %
! Seats
! width="35"| +/–
! EP Group
|-
! [[1987 European Parliament election in Spain|1987]]
| rowspan="2" | [[Santiago Carrillo]]
| 222,680
| 1.16 (#11)
| {{Composition bar|0|60|hex={{party color|Vox (political party)}}}}
| New
| rowspan="2" | –
|-
![[1989 European Parliament election in Spain|1989]]
|197,095
|1.24
(#12)
|{{Composition bar|0|60}}
|–
|}

=== Local elections ===
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|-
! width="75"| Election
! width="70"| Votes
! width="70"| %
! Seats
!Provincial deputies
|-
! [[1987 Spanish local elections|1987]]
| 185,104
| 0.95 (#11)
| {{Composition bar|179|65577|hex={{party color|Workers' Party of Spain–Communist Unity}}}}
|{{Composition bar|1|1208|{{party color|Workers' Party of Spain–Communist Unity}}}}
|}

== References ==
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Workers' Party of Spain - Communist Unity}}
[[Category:1985 establishments in Spain]]
[[Category:1991 disestablishments in Spain]]
[[Category:Defunct communist parties in Spain]]
[[Category:Political parties disestablished in 1991]]
[[Category:Political parties established in 1985]]


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