Kemal Kilicdaroglu will represent six opposition parties in the May 14 elections.
correspondent in Istanbul,
The Turkish opposition has finally produced a common candidate. After failing to implode last week, the “Table of Six” (alliance of six political mobilities) managed on Monday March 6 to nominate Kemal Kiliçdaroglu to be 14 than twenty years old in the presidential elections. “Kemel Kiliçdarolgu is our presidential candidate,” said Temel Karamollaoglu, leader of the Party of Felicity, to a crowd gathered outside his formation’s headquarters in Ankara, where leaders of the six parties had met.
Since 2010, the Republican People’s Party (CHP, Social Democrat) has been headed by Kemal Kiliçdaroglu, a 74-year-old former high-ranking official from the Alevi minority. The apparently rather reserved, but capable of violent excursions when it comes to criticism of the current government, was particularly noticeable to Erdogan’s open rival at the “March for…”.
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