ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Turkey’s supreme election council announced on Sunday that 26 different parties will participate in the upcoming parliamentary elections in Turkey, with the final list set to be announced following a two-day evaluation of the candidates.
“Among 36 parties eligible to enter elections, 26 of them have submitted the list of their candidates to the Supreme Election Council,” Ahmet Yener, head of the council, told journalists in a presser on Sunday.
The council is set to run a two-day evaluation period for the candidates presented by the parties, and will inform them in case of any legal issue to be fixed within a 48-hour period, according to Yener.
According to data from the elections council, over 64 million people are registered to vote in the upcoming elections, electing the country’s president and parliament members for the next five years.
The Turkish presidential and parliamentary elections are set to be held on May 14, a month earlier than its originally scheduled date of June 18.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is set to face his toughest challenge yet in the form of longtime rival and leader of the People’s Republican Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu and allies in the Nation Alliance who have vowed to unseat him and his party after 21 years in control.
The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), who will enter the elections as Green Left Party (Yesil Sol), is viewed as the kingmakers of the presidential elections, as they showed an implicit support for Kilicdaroglu by not presenting a candidate for the presidential elections.
Kilicdaroglu, seen as the strongest opponent, takes on Erdogan at a time when the president’s popularity is at its lowest, according to the poll centers.
Kilicdaroglu and his allies promised to abolish the presidency system, which won the referendum poll with marginal difference in 2017, and restore the parliamentary system to Turkey if they emerge victorious from the elections.
“Among 36 parties eligible to enter elections, 26 of them have submitted the list of their candidates to the Supreme Election Council,” Ahmet Yener, head of the council, told journalists in a presser on Sunday.
The council is set to run a two-day evaluation period for the candidates presented by the parties, and will inform them in case of any legal issue to be fixed within a 48-hour period, according to Yener.
According to data from the elections council, over 64 million people are registered to vote in the upcoming elections, electing the country’s president and parliament members for the next five years.
The Turkish presidential and parliamentary elections are set to be held on May 14, a month earlier than its originally scheduled date of June 18.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is set to face his toughest challenge yet in the form of longtime rival and leader of the People’s Republican Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu and allies in the Nation Alliance who have vowed to unseat him and his party after 21 years in control.
The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), who will enter the elections as Green Left Party (Yesil Sol), is viewed as the kingmakers of the presidential elections, as they showed an implicit support for Kilicdaroglu by not presenting a candidate for the presidential elections.
Kilicdaroglu, seen as the strongest opponent, takes on Erdogan at a time when the president’s popularity is at its lowest, according to the poll centers.
Kilicdaroglu and his allies promised to abolish the presidency system, which won the referendum poll with marginal difference in 2017, and restore the parliamentary system to Turkey if they emerge victorious from the elections.
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