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IP's Akşener to run for prime minister in Turkey's 2023 elections

by DAILY SABAH

ISTANBUL Sep 27, 2021 - 12:04 pm GMT+3
IP Chairperson Meral Akşener meets with shopkeepers in Iğdır province, Turkey, Sept. 15, 2021. (AA File Photo)
IP Chairperson Meral Akşener meets with shopkeepers in Iğdır province, Turkey, Sept. 15, 2021. (AA File Photo)
by DAILY SABAH Sep 27, 2021 12:04 pm
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The Chairperson of the opposition Good Party (IP) Meral Akşener said she would not be running for president but that she would be a candidate for the now-defunct position of prime minister in Turkey in the upcoming 2023 elections.

"I am not a presidential candidate, I am a candidate for prime minister,” Akşener told an interview on Sunday.

Turkish voters narrowly endorsed an executive presidency in the April 16, 2017 referendum with 51.4% of the votes. The official transition to the new system took place when Erdoğan took the oath as president in Parliament after the June 24, 2018, general elections, during which he won 52.6% of the votes.

In response to Akşener’s remarks, main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Chairperson Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said his party has been holding discussions with Nation Alliance members and other opposition parties regarding the elections.

He noted that different party leaders in the alliance may make different statements about the elections, but theirs would be a “target-oriented partnership.”

The main opposition leader also said their alliance could have more members, even though different parties may have different rhetoric.

Kılıçdaroğlu also said the pro-PKK Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) seems likely to run independently in the elections rather than joining an alliance.

“I am not interested in the details of their stance,” he said.

Kılıçdaroğlu had previously said the Nation Alliance may have more than one candidate for the presidential elections.

Consisting of the center-left main opposition CHP, the right-wing Good Party (IP), conservative Felicity Party (SP) and the center-right Democrat Party (DP), the Nation Alliance has been focusing its policies on anti-Erdoğan rhetoric and has experienced internal problems mainly due to veiled cooperation with the pro-PKK HDP.

While the opposition has been calling for snap polls to elect a new president, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) led People’s Alliance has opposed it, saying that the elections will be held on the designated date in 2023.

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