Azerbaijani Democratic Party

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The Azerbaijani Democratic Party ( Azerbaijani Azərbaycan Demokratie Partiyası , also used as an acronym ADP ) is a liberal opposition party with 20,000 members in Azerbaijan .

In 2000, the ADP merged with the Democratic Way party, and in 2005 it formed the Freedom Bloc ( Azerbaijani Azadlıq ) together with the Popular Front of Azerbaijan and the Müsawat Party . In contrast to the other two parties, the ADP could not win any seats in the national parliamentary elections in 2005.

history

The Azerbaijani Democratic Party was founded by a total of 27 people in the times of the Soviet Union , in the Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic , on January 26, 1991. On October 17 of the same year it was registered by the Cabinet of Ministers of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic ( ASSR Nakhichevan , today Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic ). The national Ministry of Justice did not register the party until March 14, 1993 - after a new law on political parties was passed. Later that year, the party's headquarters were relocated to the capital, Baku .

Sardar Jalaloglu was elected party leader at the first ADP congress and remained the ADP's sole leader between 1994 and 1996. In order to prevent the participation of the ADP in the parliamentary elections, the Ministry of Justice canceled the registration of the party on September 1, 1995 for political reasons. As a result of five years of intense and ever-increasing struggle, as well as pressure from international organizations and the diplomatic corps on the government, the Ministry of Justice had re-registered the ADP.

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