Congress voted 1979 to 201 for a resolution calling on the cooperative movement to secure direct representation in parliament and on local administrative bodies.
Communists secured strong representation in the popularly elected national committees, the new organs of local administration.
The party has since focused more on a liberal human rights agenda but has yet to secure parliamentary representation since 1997.
Half a dozen other parties also contested the elections without securing representation.
Communities, the majority of whose people do not have sufficient education and, therefore, have not secured adequate representation in government services.
The electoral threshold represents the minimum vote share a party requires to secure representation.
Starting in 2006, Berry has worked as a paid public speaker and has secured professional representation.
In the 2002 general election, it got 4.9% of the vote, just under the 5% needed to secure representation in parliament.
The party secured representation in the Landtag of Bavaria in 1946.
He was a commissioner from Arkansas to authorities at Washington in 1866 to secure representation for the state in congress.