What is the New Azerbaijan Party?
Q: What is the New Azerbaijan Party?
A: The New Azerbaijan Party (Yeni Azərbaycan Partiyası, YAP) is the ruling political party in Azerbaijan since 1993.
Q: Who founded the party?
A: The party was formed on 18 December 1992 by the former President of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev.
Q: Who currently leads the party?
A: The party is now led by his son, Ilham Aliyev, who succeeded his father as the party leader and as President of Azerbaijan since 31 October 2003.
Q: What was Heydar Aliyev's previous affiliation?
A: Heydar Aliyev, the founder of the party, was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union until July 1991 before the collapse of the Soviet Union and independence of Azerbaijan later that year.
Q: Where is located its headquarters?
A: The headquarters of the party is in Baku, which is also capital city of Azerbaijan.
Q: What are some ideologies held by this political party?
A: The stated ideologies held by this political party are lawfulness, secularism and Azerbaijani nationalism. It wants to build a "social-oriented" economy meaning a middle path between socialism and "laissez-faire" capitalism (a mixed economy), and lists civil solidarity and social justice as basis for its ideology.
