Woe to Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Turkey’s main opposition parties have appealed to the Supreme Electoral Council of Turkey (YSK) after approving the current president’s candidacy in the presidential elections scheduled for May 14, despite criticism from the opposition. The Turkish nationalist party IYI, the Good Party and the Party for Democracy and Progress, along with the mainland party, have called on Erdogan to end the two terms stipulated in the 2007 constitution. t end there.
The pro-Kurdish party HDP has decided not to put up its own candidate in the elections: a decision that unites the opposition, which is against re-election, even more. “We will not field a candidate for the presidential elections. We face a historic responsibility for the future of the nation and reject an autocratic government,” HDP secretary Pervin Buldan announced his party’s decision. An announcement that arrived, however, without any explicit mention of support for Kemal Kilicdaroglu, secretary of the main opposition party, the Republicans of the CHP and candidate of the table of the 6 parties, who, after much controversy and risk of internal rupture, nominated him for the re-election of the Turkish President: Historically, there has never been a feeling between the CHP and the Kurds.
