Ankara/04.05.18/Turan: The largest opposition party of Turkey, the People's Republican Party (CHP), nominated MP Muharram Inge as a candidate for presidential elections on June 24. The 54-year-old politician was unanimously nominated on May 4 at the congress of the People's Republican Party in Ankara, CNN Türk reported.
Speaking to the audience, Inge promised to become president of all Turks, not just supporters of his party.
The head of the CHP Kemal Kilicdaroglu said, Erdogan abolished the separation of powers, the freedom of the media was destroyed, democracy was under threat.
The Turkish opposition fears the establishment of a single authority in the country, if the current head of state Erdogan wins the elections. In Turkey, June 24 will also hold parliamentary elections. After them the transition of the country to the presidential form of government will be completed, when the president becomes the head of state and government.
On 18 April Erdogan suddenly announced the holding of early parliamentary and presidential elections, justifying his decision in the situation in neighboring Syria and Iraq. Earlier Erdogan repeatedly claimed that the voting will be held, as planned, on November 3, 2019. -02D-
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