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The Azerbaijan Communist Party is a political party
Political party

A political party is a political organization that seeks to attain and maintain politics power within government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns....
 in Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan , is the largest and most populous country in the South Caucasus, located partially in Eastern Europe and partially in Western Asia....
. 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.

maintains close contacts with the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
Communist Party of the Russian Federation

The Communist Party of the Russian Federation is a Russian political party. It is sometimes seen as a successor to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Bolshevik Party....
 but it is not against the country's independence.






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The Azerbaijan Communist Party is a political party
Political party

A political party is a political organization that seeks to attain and maintain politics power within government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns....
 in Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan , is the largest and most populous country in the South Caucasus, located partially in Eastern Europe and partially in Western Asia....
. 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.

Ideology

AKP maintains close contacts with the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
Communist Party of the Russian Federation

The Communist Party of the Russian Federation is a Russian political party. It is sometimes seen as a successor to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Bolshevik Party....
 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. Nariman Narimanov
Nariman Narimanov

Nariman Karbalayi Najaf oglu Narimanov was an Azerbaijanis revolutionary, writer, publicist, politician and statesman. In 1920, Narimanov headed the Soviet government of Azerbaijan, the Provisional Military-Revolutionary Committee , replacing Mirza Davud Huseynov, then he was the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars ....
 was a moderately nationalist and leftist Azeri leader of the 1920s, and is viewed in retrospect as a forerunner of "national communism
National communism

National Communism, is an islamic form of communism with a strong nationalist element. It was an ideology which developed in the Muslim areas of the Soviet Union, but only gained limited political power....
."

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 Armenia
Armenia

Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in South Caucasus between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea....
n 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
Nagorno-Karabakh War

The Nagorno-Karabakh War refers to the armed conflict that took place from February 1988 to May 1994, in the small ethnic enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh in southwestern Azerbaijan, between the majority ethnic Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh backed by the Republic of Armenia against the Republic of Azerbaijan....
 for their own interests.

AKP was strongly against the Azeri partecipation into the Iraq war
Iraq War

The Iraq War, also known as the Second Gulf War, the Occupation of Iraq, and Operation Iraqi Freedom, is an ongoing conflicts military campaign which began on March 20, 2003 with the 2003 invasion of Iraq by a Multinational force in Iraq now led by and composed almost entirely of troops from the United States and United King...
 and it often expressed solidarity to Palestinian people
Palestinian people

Palestinian people or Palestinians , also commonly rendered as Palestinian Arabs are terms commonly used to refer to the Arab population with family origins in Palestine....
, to Cuba
Cuba

The Republic of Cuba is a country in the Caribbean. It consists of the island of Cuba , the island of Isla de la Juventud, and several adjacent small islands....
 and also to "socialist Moldova
Moldova

Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east and south....
".

Leaders

On September 10, 2007, party chief Ramiz Ahmadov died after a long illness. His body was sent for burial in his native Quba
Quba

Quba is a Administrative divisions of Azerbaijan in northeastern Azerbaijan. The capital is located on the Kudyal River at 41.37?N, 48.50?E....
. From 2000 to 2005 Ahmadov had been a member of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan
National Assembly of Azerbaijan

The National Assembly is the legislative branch of government in Azerbaijan. The unicameral National Assembly has 125 deputies: previously 100 members were elected for five-year terms in single-seat constituency and 25 were members elected by proportional representation; as of the latest election, however, all 125 deputies are returned from...
.

The charmain is now Rauf Gurbanov who obtained the leadership of the party after a long dispute with Rustam Shahsuvarov.

Results

The party claims that it has 60.000 members.

AKP publishes Azerbaijan Hagigaty.

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.

At the municipal election of 17 december 2004, the party did very well and it elected 128 members to the local municipalities.

At the presidential election
Azerbaijani presidential election, 2008

A presidential election was held in Azerbaijan on 15 October 2008. Ilham Aliyev of the New Azerbaijan Party was re-elected with 87% of the votes, according to official results....
 that will be held in Azerbaijan on 15 October 2008, AKP decided to support the candidate from the Yeni Azerbaijan
New Azerbaijan Party

The New Azerbaijan Party is the ruling political party in Azerbaijan. It was formed in 1993 by Heydar Aliyev, who led it until his retirement and death in 2003....
 ruling party, current president of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev
Ilham Aliyev

Ilham Heydar oglu Aliyev is the current President of Azerbaijan of Azerbaijan. He also functions as the Chairman of the New Azerbaijan Party....
 .

AKP is part of the Union of Communist Parties Communist Party of the Soviet Union

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