Turkish opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu is running against incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the presidential election scheduled for May. An alliance of six parties announced this on Monday evening in Ankara.
The parliamentary and presidential elections were supposed to be in June. However, Erdogan has announced that it will be brought forward to May 14. The elections are seen as a test for the president, who has been in power for 20 years. Polls suggest his re-election is anything but certain.
Kilicdaroglu, 74, comes from the eastern Anatolian province of Tunceli (Kurdish: Dersim) and belongs to the Alevi religious minority. The opposition leader supports his country’s EU membership and a nationalist course on the refugee issue.
Critics accuse Kilicdaroglu, the head of the Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (CHP), a social-democratic party founded by state founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, of being uncharismatic and not the kind of leader Turkey needs. He counters that the Turkish population has had enough of Erdogan and his leadership style anyway.
Source: Krone
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