With the only candidate president, the current president of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), who was re -elected, in a tense atmosphere, which was exacerbated by his intense verbal fight with party MP Bantan Sismek, Kemal KilicdarogluCompleted a short time ago, at the Nazim Hikmet Cultural Center in Ankara.
As expected, Ozel was re -elected, with 1,171 votes out of 1,323 in total (invalid they were 105 votes).
The tension, which broadcast live all the pro -government media, was caused when Sismek, who wanted to be a candidate – Kilicdlaroglu, retired at the last minute, as he did not collect the signatures, – accused Ozel of his prematurely so that no other nomination is made.
“A hurried conference. In a hurry. Deciding to do a conference 15 days ago. With 10 days empty. And three days vacation. How will the candidates be (so) competed? I am very sorry. A dubious conference is illegal and unfair »Sismek emphasized, throwing “oil” into the intra -party “civil” between the teams of – Ozel and the – deprived – Kilicdaroglu.
Ozel, all the time, as the current ballot box – whose “will belong to the nation” – had the full support of the in custody of the prisoner of Constantinople. He chose the solution of the Extraordinary Congress and the elections for ratification of his presidency in order to avoid the “Skopelos” of the manager in the party announced by the government, following Kilicdaroglou’s complaints that with purchased votes he was elected president at the previous conference.
Is Ozel’s late -track weakened re -election, with a unique opponent … himself, as party executives question its legality? Did he miss the risk of appointing the administrator to the CHP, and therefore his “hostage” by the government? The party can be led to split? Questions that are expected to be answered in the coming critical days, when Erdogan and Kemal Kilicdaroglu will open their papers, in which, according to a report in the Turkish press, the Turkish president has been promised to “promise” him.
