Azerbaijan Communist Party (1993)
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The Azerbaijan Communist Party (Azərbaycan Kommunist Partiyası) is a political party in Azerbaijan. AKP was set up in 1993 by Ramiz Ahmadov ( March 6, 1939 - September 10, 2007 ) and registered by the Justice Ministry in 1994. The Party is plagued by splits ever since its formal foundation, with each faction claiming to be the real Communist Party of Azerbaijan.
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[edit] Ideology
AKP maintains close contacts with the Communist Party of the Russian Federation but it is not against the country's independence. In one occasion Ahmadov stated: we are Narimanovists, followers of the national, cultural and economic ideas of Nariman Narimanov.[1] Nariman Narimanov was a moderately nationalist and leftist Azeri leader of the 1920s, and is viewed in retrospect as a forerunner of "national communism."
AKP often criticizes US politics in the region. In 2004 after the US State Department told that US was not planning to impose sanctions on Nagorno Karabakh separatists, Ahmadov said that the Americans underhandedly supported the Armenian interests and that Washington was not interested in the settlement of the conflict. He also added that the great powers are making use of the Karabakh conflict for their own interests.
AKP was strongly against the Azeri partecipation into the Iraq war and it often expressed solidarity to Palestinian people, to Cuba and also to "socialist Moldova".
[edit] Leaders
On September 10, 2007, party chief Ramiz Ahmadov died after a long illness. His body was sent for burial in his native Quba.
From 2000 to 2005 Ahmadov had been a member of the Azerbaijani Parliament.
The deputy chief is Rustam Shahsuvarov.
The party claims that it has 60.000 members.
AKP publishes Azerbaijan Hagigaty.
After Ahmadov's death, the party divided into two blocs: those who support Shahsuvarov and those who support Rauf Gurbanov. According to Shahsuvarov, the majority of the party's members wants Seydaga Muradov to be the new leader of the party, while Gurbanov states that the chairmanship should be transferred to himself and that he is supported by 95% of the party members. Gurbanov has his stronghold in Ganja, the city where he lives.
The party intends to solve the matter of the leadership during the congress that will take place on 22 September, 2007.
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Firudin Hasanov, the leader of a rebellious faction of the AKP, was a candidate in Azerbaijan's 1998 presidential election and he arrived fourth obtaining 29.224 votes (0.87%) collected mainly in his native Ganja.
At the parliamentary election of 5 November 2000 and 7 January 2001, the party won 6.3 % of the popular vote and 2 out of 125 seats.
At the parliamentary elections of 6 November 2005 won no seats, but the chairman Ramiz Ahmadov was not running due to health problems.
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- Intervention of the late Azerbaijan Communist Party leader Ramiz Ahmadov during the 80th birthday of the Communist Party of Greece
- Statement of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation on leader Ramiz Ahmadov's death
