Reformist Communist Party of Azerbaijan

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Azerbaijan

This article is part of the series: Politics and government of Azerbaijan

President İlham Aliyev Prime Minister Artur Rasizade National Assembly Political parties Elections Subdivisions Human Rights in Azerbaijan Foreign relations See also: Politics of Nagorno Karabakh

Other countries · Politics Portal view • talk • edit

The Reformist Communist Party of Azerbaijan (Azerbaycan Islahatçi Kommunist Partiyasi, often known as "CPA-2") is a political party in Azerbaijan. AIKP is led by Firudin Hasanov.

AIKP was formed in 1996, following a split from the Azerbaijan Communist Party. AIKP 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 New Azerbaijan Party, but then the press secretary Seyran Veliev told that the party had no intention of merging with NAP.^[1]