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The Azerbaijan Communist Party ( az, Azərbaycan Kommunist Partiyası, AzKP; Азəрбаjҹан Коммунист Партиjасы, АКП) is a
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in
Azerbaijan Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of t ...
. AzKP was set up in 1993 by (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)".


Ideology

The AzKP often criticizes
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politics in the region. In 2004 after the
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told that US was not planning to impose sanctions on
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, 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 the great powers are making use of the Karabakh conflict for their own interests. The AzKP was strongly against the Azeri participation into the
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and it often expressed solidarity to
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and
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Fractions


1996

A splinter group from the main Communist Party of Azerbaijan (led by Firudin 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 ruling
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(NAP), but the party's press secretary Seyran Veliev refuted such claims, saying they had no intention of merging with the NAP.


2011

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 the
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and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, were presented at the congress.


Leaders

On 10 September 2007, party chief Ramiz Ahmadov died after a long illness. His body was sent for burial in his native
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. From 2000 to 2005 Ahmadov had been a member of the
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. Rauf Gurbanov was elected chairman of the party after a long dispute with Rustam Shahsuvarov. Gurbanov was replaced by Haji Hajiyev.


Results

The party claims that it has 60.000 members. The party publishes the newspaper ''Azərbaycan Həqiqəti''. In the parliamentary 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 the parliamentary 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 the
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of 15 October 2008, the AzKP supported the candidate from the Yeni Azerbaijan ruling party, current president of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev. The AzKP is part of the
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.


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External links

* {{Azerbaijani communism 1993 establishments in Azerbaijan Communist parties in Azerbaijan Political parties established in 1993 Political parties in Azerbaijan International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties