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This article lists political parties in Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan is a one party dominant state. Opposition parties against the New Azerbaijan Party are functioning, but are widely considered to have no real chance of gaining power.
As of 2022, 59 political parties are officially registered in Azerbaijan. Ten of them are represented in the National Assembly of Azerbaijan.
| Name | Abbr. | Leader | Ideology | Milli Majlis | Political position | Alliances | ||
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 | National Revival Movement Party Milli Dirçəliş Hərəkatı Partiyası | MDHP | Faraj Guliyev | Azerbaijani nationalism | ||||
| Azerbaijan Hope Party Azərbaycan Ümid Partiyası | ÜMİD | Igbal Agazade | Social justice | 0 / 125 | Centre-right | Formerly as VBP: | |
The Azerbaijani Popular Front Party is a political party in Azerbaijan, founded in 1989 by Abulfaz Elchibey. Since Elchibey was ousted from power in the 1993 military coup, the party has been one of the main opposition parties to the Heydar Aliyev and Ilham Aliyev authoritarian regimes.
AKP may refer to:
The Azerbaijan Communist Party was the ruling political party in the Azerbaijan SSR, making it effectively a branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. It was formed on 20 February 1920, when the Muslim Social Democratic Party, Communist Party of Persia, Ahrar Party and the Baku Bolsheviks joined together to establish the Communist Party of Azerbaijan. On 1 April of the same year, the Fifth Cabinet of Ministers of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic gave its resignations and all the power to the Communist Party of Azerbaijan. The party ruled the Azerbaijan SSR until 14 September 1991 when it was formally disbanded. Nevertheless, former leaders and members of the communists continued to play a role in the family- and patronage-based political system. The Communist Party of Azerbaijan won the first multi-party elections in Azerbaijan that took place on 30 September and 14 October 1990 for the Supreme Soviet, obtaining 280 out of 360 seats.
The Azerbaijani Social Democratic Party was an Azerbaijani secularist and a social democratic political party led by the former President of Azerbaijan Ayaz Mutalibov. At the elections held on 5 November 2000 and 7 January 2001, the party won less than 1% of popular vote and failed to gain seats in the parliament.
The Azerbaijan Democrat Party, also known as ADP, is a conservative political party in Azerbaijan.
The Müsavat Party is the oldest existing political party in Azerbaijan. Its history can be divided into three periods: Early Musavat, Musavat-in-exile and New Musavat.
Freedom (Azadlıq) was an electoral alliance of the Musavat, the Azerbaijan Popular Front Party and the Azerbaijan Democratic Party.
The National Assembly, also transliterated as Milli Mejlis, 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 constituencies and 25 were members elected by proportional representation; as of the latest election, however, all 125 deputies are returned from single-member constituencies.
The Azerbaijan Hope Party is an Azerbaijani political party, officially registered in 1993. In December 2002, a faction of the Civic Unity Party (CUP) led by Igbal Agazade split from CUP and joined the Party of Hope. On December 15, 2002, during the party's congress, Igbal Agazade became the chairman of the Party of Hope.
The Whole Azerbaijan Popular Front Party, sometimes translated as the All-Azerbaijan Popular Front Party, is a political party in Azerbaijan. It split from the opposition Azerbaijani Popular Front in 2004.
The Civic Unity Party was an Azerbaijani political party established in 1999 in Moscow by the former President of Azerbaijan Ayaz Mutallibov. After the 2000 parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan, the party split between into two fractions: one led by Ayaz Mutallibov and the other led by Igbal Agazade. The latter fraction later formed the Party of Hope.
The United Communist Party of Azerbaijan 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.
The Azerbaijan National Democrat Party, formerly known as the Grey Wolves Party, was a political party in Azerbaijan. It was the branch of the Grey Wolves in Azerbaijan. Isgandar Hamidov, a party member, was the Minister of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan of the Azerbaijan Popular Front Party government. The party was banned in 1995 and Hamidov imprisoned; however, the party is again functioning today after being re-established in 2004 and registered in 2008 with Hamidov as the party leader. The party was known for its fiery nationalist rhetoric and favoring a military solution to Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Whole Azerbaijan is an irredentist concept of uniting presumed historically Azerbaijani-inhabited territories into the Republic of Azerbaijan.
National Committee of Azerbaijan was an organization created in Berlin by Azerbaijani political immigrants. Established in late 1941, the committee's main goal was to make Nazi Germany recognize an independent Azerbaijan, and stop the German annexation of the Caucasus as a whole. In that period, German forces had a great success on Operation Barbarossa against the Soviet Union, thus the state officials were convinced that the Wehrmacht could win the war without the need of additional local assistance. Not being able to come to any substiantal agreement with the Nazi German government, the committee was disbanded in August 1943.
The National Front Party is a registered political party in Azerbaijan established by Razi Nurullayev and on August 31, 2020.
The National Center of Azerbaijan is a secret organization that operated from 1924 to 1931 in the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic(AzSSR).
Elchibeyism or Elchibey's path, refers to the political ideals of one of the leaders of the Azerbaijani Popular Front, and the second President of Azerbaijan, Abulfaz Elchibey. It is characterized by democratism, republicanism, social justice, Azerbaijanism, Pan-Turkism, advocation of Whole Azerbaijan, loyalty to the principals of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and pro-Turkey ideas. After the resignation and death of Elchibey, various parties, organizations and politicians remained attached to Elchibeyism. According to Panah Huseyn, who was the prime minister during Elchibey's reign, Elchibeyism, which has been in opposition since 1993, is the ideological rival of the New Azerbaijan Party government and Aliyevism.
Mirgasim Cheshmazer was Chairman of the Azerbaijan Democratic Party in 1954–1959, and a scientist.
Mehdi bey Hacibabayev was a social and political figure. One of the active participants of Azerbaijan's independence struggle.
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