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If CHP rebels converge in a bid to remove the 74-year-old former bureaucrat, they are likely to focus on Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu as his successor. “Our march continues, we are here.” Contemplating a change of face “We will continue to be the vanguard of this struggle until real democracy comes to our country,” he said in the wake of his loss. Kilicdaroglu, however, shows no sign of stepping down before March’s local election. “A blood change is needed … You enter every election and you lose … After losing this important election, you shouldn’t have a chance again.” “You must leave this party now,” he said, accusing Kilicdaroglu of “desperation” in his switch to nationalist rhetoric following an unexpectedly high showing by nationalist voters in the first round.

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“There is a complete failure in terms of our chairman and party.”įatih Portakal, a leading journalist seen as sympathetic to the opposition, used his Sozcu TV show on Tuesday morning to question the direction of the CHP under Kilicdaroglu. “Nobody should attempt to create a success story from these results,” former CHP General Secretary Mehmet Akif Hamzacebi said on Monday. The harshest spotlight is likely to be on the CHP, as the largest opposition party, and Kilicdaroglu, who has led the party since 2010 without winning a national election. Opposition politicians are due to attend party congresses before the end of the year, where they will likely face questions over the leadership and strategy of this spring’s campaign. Kilicdaroglu’s Republican People’s Party (CHP) will try to defend the gains made in 2019.įour years ago, the CHP, backed by other parties, took a clutch of major cities, including Istanbul and Ankara, which had been governed by Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AK Party) or its predecessors for 25 years. The focus is now on local elections due in March next year. In Turkey’s two previous direct presidential elections, Erdogan’s challengers had failed to break through the 40 percent barrier. The opposition can view Kilicdaroglu’s 47.8 percent share of the vote in Sunday’s second-round presidential race against Erdogan as a success of sorts. The president, however, surprised his critics, pundits and pollsters by securing a third term and extending his 20-year rule for another five years. The opposition, led by Kemal Kilicdaroglu’s Nation Alliance, had seen the country’s worst economic crisis in two decades and the fallout over catastrophic earthquakes in February as near-insurmountable obstacles to Erdogan’s re-election. Istanbul, Turkey – As the dust settles on the elections, Turkey’s opposition is turning to the question of how it failed to grab its best chance of unseating President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.