Ankara, 7 March 2023 (GNP): After months of heated debate, Turkiye’s divided opposition leaders agreed on Monday to jointly nominate the leader of the country’s largest secular party as their opponent for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the May 14 elections.
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Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the head of the CHP, will appoint the other five opposition members as vice presidents should he displace Erdogan’s two-decade rule as a last-minute effort to prevent splitting of the opposition votes.
Kilicdaroglu said after emerging from hours of stressful negotiations, “We would have been eliminated had we split up.”
After a two-decade rule that has altered the NATO member nation and significant emerging market economy, Kilicdaroglu, 74, the leader of the nation’s second-largest party, seeks to escape from Erdogan’s influence and topple the president. “Our table is a peace table. Our sole objective is to lead the nation into a time of wealth, peace, and joy declared Kilicdaroglu.
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According to polls, the presidential and parliamentary elections in two months would be closely contested, with the opposition coalition marginally in front of the ruling coalition.
