Azerbaijan Communist Party (1993)
The Azerbaijan Communist Party ( Azerbaijani Communist Azərbaycan Partiyası, also used as an abbreviation ACP ) is a political party in the Republic of Azerbaijan.
It was founded in 1993 and currently employs some 60,000 members. The party has its own newspaper, the Azərbaycan Həqiqəti. Chairman is currently Rauf Qurbanov.
Ideological orientation
The Azerbaijan Communist Party is not the successor party to the Communist Party of Azerbaijan SSR (the successor party to the New Azerbaijan Party ). It considers, however, although some factions of it broke away as the only true Communist Party in Azerbaijan.
She criticizes the Caucasus policy of the U.S. and maintains close relations with the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. Furthermore, they sympathized with the Communist Party of Greece and is also committed to solidarity relations with the governments of Cuba, Palestine and Moldova.
The Communist Party has in the political system of Azerbaijan, similar to the Azerbaijan Hope Party, a rather low priority.
In the parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan on November 5, 2000 to January 7, 2001, the party won 6.3% of the vote and two of the 125 seats in parliament. In the Azerbaijani municipal elections on 17 December 2004 won about 128 candidates of the party and became mayors. In the parliamentary elections on 5 November 2005, the party won no seats in the Azerbaijani Parliament.
The party supported the current president Ilham Əliyev in the presidential elections in Azerbaijan in 2008.