Azerbaijan National Independence Party
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National Independence Party
Azərbaycan Milli İstiqlal Partiyası |
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| Party leader | Etibar Mammadov |
| Secretary general | Arzukhan Alizade |
| Headquarters | Baku |
| Ideology | Liberal conservatism |
| Political position | Centre-right |
| International affiliation | International Democrat Union |
| Website | |
| http://web.archive.org/web/20130703051830/http://amip.az | |
The National Independence Party of Azerbaijan NIPA (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan Milli İstiqlal Partiyası) is a centre-right political party in Azerbaijan.
NIPA was founded on July 3-4, 1992 and was officially registered at the Justice Ministry on July 17 the same year, reestablishing multi-party system in Azerbaijan after 70 years of Soviet rule.
NIPA was the first political organization to struggle for political power and its party leader Etibar Mammadov was one of the leading figures of the Azerbaijani national freedom movement.
While holding a press conference in Moscow City on January 26, 1990 on the massacres committed by the Soviet Union in Baku January 20 1990, Etibar Mammadov was arrested and detained in the Lefortovo prison.
NIPA has taken part in all elections held in the country since independence. In the 1992 presidential election, Etibar Mammadov took back his candidacy, but three years later, NIPA cleared the 8% barrier in 1995 parliamentary elections and thereby got represented in the supreme legislative body, despite all the obstacles set up by the more and more undemocratic government.
In the presidential election of 1998,Etibar Mammadov came second. NIPA did also participate in 2000, 2005 and 2010 parliamentary elections.
In 2003, Etibar Mammadov participated at the elections as the candidate of the election bloq “Qelebe” (victory), established within NIPA October 15 2003. The results of elections were falsified.
NIPA which joined 2004 municipal elections occupied the second place after New Azerbaijan Party, the ruling party, for number of municipal members.
The main purpose of the party is to combine the principles of Azebaijanism and modernization in thought; conservatism in tradition and morality; liberty in economy; justice in social life, as well as achieving unity and integrity of the society and state.
The party struggles for building democracy and establishing rule of law in the country, something that has exposed its supporters to various forms of punishments from the current regime.
NIPA is one of the leading political parties in Azeri politics, playing an important role in public and social life, with local branches in 73 regions and more than 40 000 members.
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