Three left-wing parties in Turkey have reached an agreement that they will run together on one list in the elections that are expected to take place on June 18, 2023. This was reported yesterday (Friday) by the newspaper Jumhurheit.
These are not the major opposition parties, the Republican People's Party and the "Good Party", but the parties that are considered in Ankara to be a clear left: the pro-Kurdish People's Party, the Turkish Workers' Party and the left-wing Sol party.
Precisely because these are parties that do not face Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Justice and Development Party for the same potential votes, this is a cause for concern for the president, because the alliance between the three parties can prevent a situation where one of them remains below the high blocking percentage (10% D.S.A. ).
At the same time, Erdogan's great danger to his position as president in the direct elections is the "People's Alliance" of the Republican People's Party led by Kamal Kilicdraulo, and the good party headed by Marel Aksner, whose candidate against Erdogan, at least according to opinion polls, may beat the technical bloc. Erdogan's Alliance of the People with the National Movement Party.
"The goal of the Democratic People's Party in creating the left-wing bloc is to curb claims that it is a 'secret partner' of the United Nations," the Jumhourite reported.
However, the Democratic People's Party, all the more so under the "umbrella" of the left-wing bloc, may support (albeit remotely) the United Nations - with the aim of defeating Erdogan.
"This technical block is intended to centralize all the voices of the Turkish left so that they are not wasted," Dr. Chai Eitan Cohen Inrojek, a modern Turkish researcher at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security and at the Moshe Dayan Center at Tel Aviv University, told Israel Today.
"The pro-Kurdish party, even before the unification with the other two parties, was expected to pass the blocking percentage alone. And now, the votes of the other two parties that might not have passed the blocking percentage - promise all three seats in parliament from the next election."
Regarding Erdogan, the senior investigator adds that "this is the message of the unwanted opposition in Turkey, that although it has not found its place in the central alliance against the president - it is ready to make tough decisions to lead to victory against it."