It is due to these seven additional factors that the successor party in Moldova managed to consolidate and expand its constituency.

In 2008, the party merged into The Jewish Home, essentially a successor party.

Several successor parties are functioning, and Communist hard-liners have held several demonstrations without repercussions.

In the presidential election, the candidate of the successor party to the Communists finished with less than 10 percent of the vote.

In recent weeks, the successor party Mr. Gysi heads was able to increase its wealth by the sale of assets.

A number of successor parties exist in post-Communist Bulgaria.

Younger Welfare leaders, apparently in fear of the banning, have begun subtle competition to head a successor party.

None of the successor parties won any seats in the 1976 General Elections.

But the Liberals and successor parties, now the Liberal Democrats, continue to compete.

Both successor parties failed to capture even a single seat in the 1998 election.