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Post by sevenofnine on Mar 3, 2023 13:37:02 GMT -5
OH OH! Turks are set to elect a president in May but the opposition alliance cannot agree on a candidate to challenge incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Now, the nationalist IYI has left the six-party block Turkey's right-wing nationalist Good Party (IYI) withdrew from the country's opposition alliance Friday over the selection of Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu as the candidate to challenge incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in upcoming national elections. The split comes just weeks before Turkish voters will head to the polls. Erdogan — who has been in power for two decades — this week said the vote, originally scheduled for June, would be staged on May 14. Meral Aksener, who leads IYI, the second largest party in the opposition alliance, said IYI would not "bow down" to accept what they felt was a weak candidate, instead putting forth the names of the mayors of Istanbul and Ankara as preferable. In making her argument, Aksener cited polls showing that both Ankara Mayor Mansur Yavas and Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu would beat Erdogan handily. Split opposition plays into Erdogan's hands www.dw.com/en/turkeys-opposition-split-over-erdogan-challenger/a-64881436
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