New Azerbaijan

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New Azerbaijan Party
Yeni Azərbaycan Partiyası
President Ilcham Aliyev of the New Azerbaijan Party
Party leader İlham Əliyev
(since October 31, 2003 )
founding 18th December 1992
Place of foundation Naxçıvan , AR Nakhchivan
Headquarters Bülbül prospekti 13,
Baku , Azerbaijan
Alignment Nationalism
Laicism
Social market economy
Liberal conservatism
Colours) blue, yellow, white
Parliament seats 72/125 ( National Assembly )
Number of members 518,000 (as of 2009 )
Website www.yap.org.az
Logo on a postage stamp
Party headquarters in Baku .

The New Azerbaijan party ( Azerbaijani Yeni Azərbaycan Partiyası , or YAP for short ; Russian Новый Азербайджан ) is the party that provides the current president in Azerbaijan and thus dominates Azerbaijani politics. The party was founded on December 18, 1992 and has approximately 518,000 members.

In addition to the President İlham Əliyev , she also provides the Prime Minister Novruz Məmmədov .

Ideological profile

The party is nationalist and secular . The principles of the party are:

history

After Azerbaijan's declaration of independence, Heydar Əliyev, who was the first secretary of the CPSU in the Azerbaijani SSR , turned away from communist ideology and left the CP on July 19, 1991. The Azerbaijani CP disbanded in the period that followed and later renamed itself the Popular Front New Azerbaijan ; Heydar Əliyev became its first chairman.

Heydar's son, İlham Əliyev, has been a Member of Parliament for New Azerbaijan in the Republic of Azerbaijan since 1995 . In December 1999 he was appointed Deputy Chairman and 2001 First Deputy Chairman of the party Yeni Azərbaycan selected.

elections

The ruling New Azerbaijan party won 70 of the 125 seats in the 1995 parliamentary elections and 75 seats in the 2000 elections. These elections are considered rigged. The parliamentary elections on November 6, 2005, in which the ruling New Azerbaijan party won a majority, did not meet international standards in the opinion of the OSCE election observation mission, despite some improvements in various respects. For this reason, the Constitutional Court of Azerbaijan did not recognize the election result in ten constituencies. The re-elections on May 13, 2006 did not meet international standards either. According to the official final result, New Azerbaijan has a relative majority in parliament.

In the 2010 general election , the party expanded its majority. Here too, the opposition spoke of massive election manipulation.

literature

  • Ishiyama, John (2008): Political Party Development and Party 'Gravity' in Semi-Authoritarian States. The Cases of Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. In: Taiwan Journal of Democracy 4/1: 33-53.
  • Küpeli, Ismail (2010): Stabilization of Authoritarian Rule: The Azerbaijan Case Study . University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg 2010. (on YAP and the elections see pp. 33–38)

Web links

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  1. ↑ a b Ruling New Azerbaijan Party will mark membership of 500,000th person
  2. ↑ Information on current developments in Azerbaijani politics
  3. ^ Party info
  4. ^ History of Azerbaijan ( Memento from January 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Economist Intelligence Unit (2008): Azerbaijan - Country Profile 2008, p. 7
  6. ^ Presidential election in Azerbaijan
  7. ^ The ruling party wins elections in Azerbaijan. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . November 8, 2010, accessed October 20, 2011 .