Leader Telman Nurullayev Political position Far-left | Founded 31 October 2011 | |
Merger of Azerbaijan Communist Party (on Platform of Marxism-Leninism) (ACP-PM-L) and the Communist Party of Azerbaijan Ideology Communism
Marxism–Leninism International affiliation International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties |
The Communist Party of Azerbaijan is a communist party that was founded on 31 October 2011 by the merger of the Azerbaijan Communist Party (on Platform of Marxism–Leninism) (ACP-PM-L) and the Communist Party of Azerbaijan headed by Alasgar Khalilov. At the unification congress Telman Nurullayev, the former head of the (AKP-PML), was elected the party's First Secretary and was also elected to the Politburo. Representatives from fraternal communist parties, such as the Socialist Party of Latvia and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, were presented at the congress.
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