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Unity Party (Azerbaijan)

Azerbaijani political party

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 7, 2024
Entity authorityQ12847378 ↗
Source-derived summary

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.

History

The party was established in 1995. In April 2000 a breakaway led to the formation of the Unity Party II, which later merged into the Azerbaijani Popular Front Party. It supported Ilham Aliyev of the New Azerbaijan Party in the 2008 presidential elections.

In the 2015 parliamentary elections the party won a single seat, with Kərimli elected in the Ağsu-İsmayilli constituency.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Unity Party (Azerbaijan)” as azerbaijani political party. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Unity, Party and Azerbaijan.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995, 2000, 2008, 2015—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1995. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Unity, Party and Azerbaijan providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 7, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q12847378. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1995, 2000, 2008 and 2015.

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This entry incorporates text from “Unity Party (Azerbaijan)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.