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| | New European Party of the Left Founded |
 | | The parties agreed on a common program but planned further debate on the statute, which will probably call for a chairperson, an executive committee and a council of party leaders. |
 | | These include the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (the Czech Republic), the Communist Party of Slovakia, the Estonian Social Democratic Workers' Party and the AKEL of Cyprus, though the last named, proportionately the strongest, was one of those deciding to maintain an observer status. |
 | | The most active initiators of the new party were, besides the German PDS, Italy's Party of the Communist Refoundation, represented by its leader, Fausto Bertinotti, and Nicos Houndis of the Greek Coalition of Left, Political Movements and Ecology (SYNASPISMOS). |
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