Opposition alliance fractures after IYI Party leader Meral Akşener announces withdrawal from bloc ahead of May elections

Opposition alliance fractures after IYI Party leader Meral Akşener announces withdrawal from bloc ahead of May elections

Türkiye‘s nationalist IYI Party chief Meral Akşener mentioned on Friday the six-party opposition alliance of which her social gathering was a member now not mirrored the nationwide will, saying her social gathering’s withdrawal from the grouping forward of the May elections.

Akşener advised a news convention that the IYI Party‘s proposed presidential candidates, the mayors of Istanbul and Ankara, weren’t accepted by the opposite 5 events and he or she known as on the mayors to do their obligation, in an obvious invitation for them to face as candidates.

The different 5 events within the alliance had agreed on Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, chief of the primary opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), as their joint candidate to problem President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan within the May 14 elections.

Source: www.anews.com.tr