However, a number of controversies arose between him and other movement leaders after the Black January incidents.

[5] AVP first joined an oppositional bloc of parties which was formed for the presidential elections in 1991 and after the presidential election of 1992 the party supported and joined the Government under Abulfaz Elchibey.

[4] Following the victory in the presidential elections in 1993 of Heydar Aliyev, the AVP also joined his government.

Its party leader Fazail Agamali, was the Minister of Labour and Social Protection of the Population under both presidents.

[8][4] The Motherland Party (AVP) has a 6-member Political Council and a 14-member Supreme Assembly.