Abilov contested the presidential elections that year, finishing second but with only 40,000 votes to the 3.9 million claimed to have been received by incumbent president Heydar Aliyev.
[1] In 2016 Tural Abbaslı [az] left the Musavat party and joined United Azerbaijan.
The party contested the 2020 parliamentary elections under its original name, receiving 0.3% of the vote and failing to win a seat.
His popularity is especially evident on social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok, where his total number of followers exceeds half a million, a record among all opposition representatives.
Relations with the West: The party criticizes Western liberal values, viewing them as a potential threat to Azerbaijan’s national and religious traditions.