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Azerbaijan Communist Party Azərbaycan Kommunist Partiyası Азəрбаjҹан Коммунист Партиjасы | |
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| Abbreviation | AzKP |
| Chairman | Haji Hajiyev |
| Founder | Ramiz Ahmadov [az] |
| Founded | 1993 (1993) |
| Preceded by | Azerbaijan Communist Party (1920) |
| Headquarters | Baku |
| Newspaper | Azərbaycan Həqiqəti ("Azerbaijan Truth") |
| Ideology | Communism Marxism–Leninism |
| Political position | Far-left |
| International affiliation | IMCWP[1] |
| Continental affiliation | UCP-CPSU CPSU (2001) |
| Colors | Red |
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TheAzerbaijan Communist Party (Azerbaijani:Azərbaycan Kommunist Partiyası, AzKP; Азəрбаjҹан Коммунист Партиjасы, АКП) is acommunist party inAzerbaijan. AzKP was set up in 1993 byRamiz Ahmadov [az] (6 March 1939 – 10 September 2007) and registered by the Justice Ministry in 1994.
Note that there are two parties named "Communist Party of Azerbaijan". They are completely different parties, with completely different leaders. One is a member of the "UPC-CPSU", while the other one is a member of the "CPSU (2001)".
The AzKP often criticizesUnited States politics in the region. In 2004 after theUS State Department told that US was not planning to impose sanctions onNagorno Karabakh, Ahmadov said that the Americans underhandedly supported the Armenian interests and that Washington was not interested in the settlement of the conflict. He also added that thegreat powers are making use of theKarabakh conflict for their own interests.
The AzKP was strongly against the Azeri participation into theIraq War and it often expressed solidarity toPalestinian people andCuba.
A splinter group from the main Communist Party of Azerbaijan (led byFirudin Hasanov) was formed in 1996. CPA-2 developed close relation with the government of the country and for a brief period it was the only legally registered communist party in the country.
Hasanov was a candidate in Azerbaijan's 1998 presidential election and he arrived fourth obtaining 29.224 votes (0.87%). Leaders of the other Azeri communist parties describe Hasanov as a "traitor" for his collaboration with the government.
In 2000 the newspaper "Bu Gun" reported that Hasanov was considering a merger with the rulingNew Azerbaijan Party (NAP), but the party's press secretary Seyran Veliev refuted such claims, saying they had no intention of merging with the NAP.[2]
It was founded on 31 October 2011 by the merger of the Azerbaijan Communist Party (on Platform of Marxism–Leninism) (ACP-PM-L) and the Communist Party of Azerbaijan headed by Alasgar Khalilov. At the unification congress Telman Nurullayev, the former head of the (AKP-PML), was elected the party's First Secretary and was also elected to the Politburo. Representatives from fraternal communist parties, such as theSocialist Party of Latvia and theCommunist Party of the Soviet Union, were presented at the congress.[3]
On 10 September 2007, party chief Ramiz Ahmadov died after a long illness. His body was sent for burial in his nativeQuba. From 2000 to 2005 Ahmadov had been a member of theNational Assembly of Azerbaijan.
Rauf Gurbanov was elected chairman of the party after a long dispute with Rustam Shahsuvarov. Gurbanov was replaced by Haji Hajiyev.[when?]
The party claims that it has 60.000 members. The party publishes the newspaperAzərbaycan Həqiqəti.
In theparliamentary election of 5 November 2000 and 7 January 2001, the party won 6.3% of the popular vote and 2 out of 125 seats.
In theparliamentary elections of 6 November 2005 won no seats, but the chairman Ramiz Ahmadov was not running due to health problems.
In the municipal election of 17 December 2004, the party did very well and it elected 128 members to the local municipalities.
In thepresidential election of 15 October 2008, the AzKP supported the candidate from theYeni Azerbaijan ruling party, current president of AzerbaijanIlham Aliyev.[4][5]
The AzKP is part of theCommunist Party of the Soviet Union (2001).
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