Azerbaijan United Communist Party
United Communist Party of Azerbaijan Azərbaycan Birləşmiş Kommunyist Partiyası | |
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| Founded | 1993 |
| Newspaper | Kommunist |
Marxism-Leninism | |
| Political position | Left-wing |
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| http://kpaz.ru/ | |
The United Communist Party of Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan Birləşmiş Kommunist Partiyası) is a political party in Azerbaijan. AVKP was set up in the end of 1993 by the scientist Sayad Sayadov and registered by the Justice Ministry in 1995.
After a split in 1997, AVKP broke into two different parties both named United Communist Party of Azerbaijan, one led by Sayadov and the other led by the Baku City Party Committee Musa Tukanov. The bulk of United Communists sided with Tukanov, who replaced Sayadov as leader at a congress in 1998.
Nonetheless, the Justice Ministry recognizes Sayadov as leader. Sayadov's faction (AVKP-1) is also officially registered while Tukanov's faction (AVKP-2) is unregistered.
In May 2002, Tukanov proposed to set up the Coordination Council of Leftist Forces. Besides the AVKP-2, the Bolsheviks' Organization and the Labors' Union, also
In the 2005 Azerbaijan parliamentary election, Sayad Sayadov managed to obtain 8.3% of the votes in the District 12 arriving second after the candidate of the ruling party NAP Mixail Zabelin.[1]
The party itself puts its membership at 7,000.
AVKP publishes Kommunist.
References
- ^ ""Seçkilər" İnformasiya Mərkəzi". www.infocenter.gov.az. Archived from the original on 10 March 2007. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
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