Azerbaijan, Baku, 10 November / Trend , corr. J.Babayeva /The date to unite left-wing parties of Azerbaijan has been specified.
"Parties are expected to unite in January-February in 2009," Rauf Gurbanov, the Chairman of the Communistic Party of Azerbaijan (CPA) told Trend on 10 November.
Since early November, the chairmen of the Social, Communistic, Unified Communistic parties and Communistic party of Azerbaijan on the ground of Marxism-Leninism ideology hold negotiations to establish a new alliance of left-wing parties. The combined efforts will be directed to consolidate parties on the threshold of municipal and parliamentary elections.
The municipal and parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan will be held in 2009 and 2010 respectively.
According to Gurbanov, chairmen of left-wing parties met on 9 November to discuss the details and names of the alliance. "We do not want to make mistakes. Discussions will be held on this topic and we will choose a concrete name for the alliance," Gurbanov said.
Gurbanov did not exclude the further expansion of the organization.
"Any party with Marxism and Leninism ideology will be accepted to the alliance. If any party will make a request to joint the alliance, founders of the organization will make a decision on the ground of consensus," Gurbanov added.
The alliance will cooperate with any political organization or bloc in the future.
The alliance is needed to operate after the municipal and parliamentary elections, as well. "We cannot predict that the alliance will function after the elections. We hope that it will continue functioning for the sake of population," Gurbanov said.
The party with the communistic ideology was founded in Azerbaijan before the 'Great Socialistic revolution in October' in 1903. The party had been headed by Mashadi Azizbayov, Nariman Narimanov and others. In 1991, the party stopped operating after collapse of the Soviet Union, but restored functioning in 1993.
The left-wing Communistic Party of Azerbaijan takes a constructive opposition position towards the authorities. The part was split after death of its chairman Ramiz Ahmadov in 2007. Each side holds a separate meeting and pretends to call the party as Communistic Party of Azerbaijan.
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