The fine is due to Ekrem Imamoglu calling members of the Electoral Council “stupid” in 2019
Two years, seven months and 15 days. This is the prison sentence handed down by a court in Istanbul to the city’s mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, for “openly insulting Election Committee officials”. The facts date back to 2019, when the now mayor described as “stupid” members of the Electoral Council who decided to annul the results of the municipal elections that his party won after the challenge of Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s party. The elections were repeated and Imamoglu won again in a major blow to the Islamists, who lost an important city hall in Turkey.
The leader of the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), who is running as one of the possible opponents of Recep Tayyip Erdogan in June’s presidential elections, is also disqualified because the Justice Department has decided to apply Article 53, which would allow a person to be imprisoned. is deprived of “exercising certain rights”, including those of “an appointed or elected official”. The country’s critical voices see the hand of the president behind this decision of the justice system that could remove from the presidential race that emerged as its great opponent. Although no one forgets that Erdogan himself was also imprisoned two decades ago and his time in prison boosted his image before the polls.
Source: La Verdad
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