The elections in Turkey are expected to take place in a little more than two months, and despite the growing public disappointment with Ordan's rule, it seems that the opposition to his rule in the country is in crisis.
On Friday, the opposition party, the third party in the country, the "Good Party", announced that it intends to withdraw from the alliance with the other five opposition factions following disagreements over the identity of the bloc's leader ahead of the upcoming elections.
Dr. Asa Ofir, an expert in the history and politics of modern Turkey, explains: "The opposition alliance in Turkey consists of six parties with different ideological backgrounds, in the alliance there is the Republican Party (center-left), the DEVA Party (center-right), the Democratic Party (center- Right), Future Party (center-right), Happiness Party (Islamist Right).
The IYI party led by Merel Aksner, which withdrew from the alliance, is a right-wing nationalist party that categorically denies cooperation with the Kurds and rejects any compromise with the Kurdish aspirations in Turkey."
The leader of the Good Party Merel Aksner,
"The six party leaders held meetings in recent months with the aim of reaching an agreement on the road map the day after Erdogan. They succeeded in formulating an orderly policy document, but they were unable to reach an agreement on the identity of the presidential candidate. Merel Actionner believes that Ankara Mayor Mansur Yabash or Akram Imamoglu Mayor "Istanbul should be the opposition candidates because they are the most popular in the polls, on the other hand, the head of the Republican Party (the second largest party) Kemal Kilicadarulu, believes that he should stand in the elections against Erdogan," Ofir says.
According to the expert, the last agreement between the six parties was that next Monday they would announce a candidate, when Actionner suddenly announced at a press conference on Friday that she opposes the candidacy of Kilicadaroulu, which in practice means that her party is withdrawing from the opposition alliance.
Does the move endanger the opposition's chance of defeating Erdogan in the upcoming elections?
"Not at all certain. The existence of the nationalist IYI party in the opposition alliance was a stumbling block to any cooperation with the Kurdish electorate, which is a very large and important share in Turkey. The withdrawal of the party from the alliance could open an opening for cooperation with the Kurdish HDP party, which is the third largest party in the Turkish parliament. Why is the split happening right now? The split is happening now because the election date is getting closer (May 14) and the opposition alliance has not yet nominated a candidate on its behalf. The struggle for ideology and especially for power was present in the background the whole time and now it has simply risen to the surface."
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