Azerbaijani Communist Party
| Azərbaycan Communist Partiyası Azerbaijani Communist Party |
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| Party leader | Hajji Hajjev |
| founding | 1993 |
| Headquarters | Baku |
| Youth organization | Komsomol of Azerbaijan |
| newspaper | Azərbaycan Həqiqəti |
| Alignment |
Communism Marxism-Leninism |
| Colours) | red |
| National Assembly |
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| International connections |
UdKP-CPSU International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties |
| Website | azkp.org/ |
It was founded in 1993 and currently has around 60,000 members. The party has its own newspaper, the Azərbaycan Həqiqəti (Truth of Azerbaijan). The current chairman is Hajji Hajjev.
Ideological orientation
The Azerbaijani Communist Party is not the successor party to the Communist Party of the Azerbaijani SSR (its successor party is the New Azerbaijan Party ). However, although some splinter parties have split off from it, it regards itself as the only true communist party in Azerbaijan.
She criticizes the USA's policy on the Caucasus and maintains close ties with the Communist Party of the Russian Federation . She also sympathizes with the Communist Party of Greece and is committed to solidarity relations with the governments in Cuba , Palestine and Moldova .
elections
The Communist Party has in the political system of Azerbaijan , similar to the Azerbaijan Hope Party , a minor importance.
In the parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan from November 5, 2000 to January 7, 2001, the party won 6.3% of the vote and thus 2 of the 125 seats in parliament. In the Azerbaijani local elections on December 17, 2004, around 128 party candidates won and became mayors. In the parliamentary elections on November 5, 2005, the party did not get any seats in the Azerbaijani parliament.
The party supported the current President İlham Əliyev in the 2008 presidential election in Azerbaijan . She is a member of the Union of Communist Parties - Communist Party of the Soviet Union .
Web links
supporting documents
- ↑ on kprf.ru: Relations between the AKP and the KPRF
- ↑ on kke.gr: Relations between the AKP and the KKE
- ↑ on today.az: 2008 presidential elections in Azerbaijan