Azerbaijan Hope Party

The Azerbaijan Hope Party (Azərbaycan Ümid Partiyası) is an Azerbaijani political party, officially registered in 1993. In December 2002, a faction of the Civic Unity Party (CUP) led by Igbal Agazade split from CUP and joined the Party of Hope. On December 15, 2002, during the party's congress, Igbal Agazade became the chairman of the Party of Hope. During the 2003 Presidential Elections in Azerbaijan, the Party of Hope played a major role in holding numerous meetings in Baku as well as in different regions of Azerbaijan. Party and its leader were together with voters on election day and came forward against the numerous cases of voter suppression, and on October 16, when voters protested against falsification of election results. On October 17, leader of Umid (Hope) Party was deprived his parliamentary immunity and was arrested with members of his family, his advocate and journalists.

Igbal Agazadeh and other representatives of opposition that were sentenced to 3 year in prison according to the decision of the criminal Court were granted the amnesty by the edict of President on March 20, 2005, in the result of insistence of international organizations. In Parliamentary elections in 2005, 30 candidates represented Umid (Hope) Party. Although mass falsification of results, some candidates from opposition could get the trust of voters and become deputies of Milli Majlis. One of them was the leader of Umid (Hope) Party.

The Umid Party is a party of the centre right and supports a liberal and democratic society in Azerbaijan. Party has regional branches in 65 regions of Azerbaijan and more than 55,000 members.

History
The party states that the name and party itself has been declared in 1993 and after a legal repression from 2003 to 2005 the party has re-established the activities. In 2010 the party has signed a statement to participate elections under a political bloc named "Qarabağ" that included Azerbaijan Democrat Party and the Intellegentsia Party. On February 9, 2020, around 70 candidates took part in the extraordinary parliamentary elections, but the results of the elections were canceled on February 11 making this contest null and void.

According to the National Assembly itself, the party cadres consist of former members of Azerbaijani Social Democratic Party and Civic Unity Party (Azerbaijan). CUP and ASDP were centre-left political parties that date back to early eras of the Azerbaijani independence and eventually dissolved in 2023 due to the law "on political parties" that imposed new governorship and ideological regulations on the political parties.

The party has survived the regulations on the political parties as it established more than five thousand members.