Ankara – Turkey’s Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) and its allies have announced that they will not field a candidate in the May 14 presidential election. This decision will strengthen the opposition’s united movement once morest President Tayyip Erdogan.
Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kolichudaravlo is the presidential candidate of the National Alliance of 6 opposition parties. Although the HDP has not joined the front, the withdrawal from the race is a strategic support for the anti-Erdogan coalition.
The CHP won the Ankara and Istanbul municipal elections in 2019 with the support of the HDP, the second largest opposition party in the Turkish parliament. HDP’s alliance is with the Left parties. A week ago, Tayyip Erdogan, head of the Islamist AK Party, completed 20 years at the head of Turkey; He served as Prime Minister from 14 March 2003 to 28 August 2014 and then as President.
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