DONETSK, October 8. /TASS/. The Communist Party has been created in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic.

Its founding congress was held in the republic on Wednesday.

Chairman of the DPR Supreme Council Boris Litvinov was proclaimed leader of the party.

He said the Communists would support DPR Prime Minister Alexander Zakharchenko’s candidature at the upcoming elections for premiership.

This is the first party in the history of the self-proclaimed republic. Other political organizations were set up in the form of public movement.