Azerbaijan, Baku / Trend corr. S.Ilhamgizi / The chairman of the Umid Party, Igbal Alizadeh, said small parties should join big ones.
According to Alizadeh, foundation of numerous political parties does not prove presence of democracy in the country. The countries with democracy norms the political parties must be elected into the parliament on proportional election system financed by government and play an important role in social life of the country. However, political parties have no such an opportunities in Azerbaijan.
"If the aforesaid conditions to be created in Azerbaijan then small parties would have to join big ones," Agazadeh said.
The Umid opposition party was founded in 1993. In 2002 the Civil Union Party joined Umid. MP Igbal Agazadeh the chairman of the party.