Unity Party | |
Native Name: | Vəhdət Partiyası |
Native Name Lang: | az |
Abbreviation: | VP |
Split: | Azerbaijani Popular Front Party |
Chairman: | Tahir Kərimli |
Leader1 Title: | Vice Chairman |
Leader1 Name: | Əbdülvahab Manafov Vasif Əfəndiyev |
Founder: | Tahir Kərimli |
Headquarters: | B.Səfəroglu, 28, Baku |
Membership: | 1,000 |
Ideology: | Political unionism (Restoration of territorial integrity with fair resolution of Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict) |
Anthem: | Koroghlu opera |
Seats1 Title: | National Assembly |
Website: | Facebook page |
Country: | Azerbaijan |
The Unity Party (Azerbaijani: Vəhdət Partiyası, VP) is a political party in Azerbaijan led by Tahir Kərimli. It supports a resolution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict that restores the pre-conflict territorial boundaries of Azerbaijan.[1]
The party was established in 1995.[2] In April 2000 a breakaway led to the formation of the Unity Party II, which later merged into the Azerbaijani Popular Front Party.[2] It supported Ilham Aliyev of the New Azerbaijan Party in the 2008 presidential elections.[3]
In the 2015 parliamentary elections the party won a single seat,[4] with Kərimli elected in the Ağsu-İsmayilli constituency.[5]