The system means the party leadership is reserving 186 places for itself, while CHP members will be able select just shy of two-thirds of the party’s 550 nominees through primaries.īut how many of the primary seats are actually winnable? Keeping the spoils Group D, containing 147 seats, will have be no primary at all and the party leadership will select all the candidates.The CHP will allow members to vote on their nominees but it will be a consultative ballot and the outcome won’t be binding Group C contains 76 seats, of which eleven are reserved by headquarters.Here the party leadership has reserved 28 spaces on local lists but will allow members to fill the remaining spaces
Group B contains 167 seats and includes Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir, the country’s largest cities.Group A contains 160 seats and members here will pick all of the CHP candidates for parliament.Under the plans, Turkey’s 85 electoral districts are divided into four groups, with local members given a different say on the party nominees in each: Not everyone gets a vote Province by province: where the CHP will primaries – and where it won’tīut there is a catch: not every CHP member will have a say. He’s putting his own name forward in Izmir, although it is one of the party’s strongholds. So Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the leader of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), deserves praise for announcing primaries in a little over half of Turkey’s provinces. It’s always been an opaque process – prospective candidates most find a place in exchange for money, favour or influence.
Party membership has been little more than symbolic in Turkey, where parliamentary nominees have been handpicked by party leaders and their advisers for the past two decades. With a little over two months until the general election, you might think it’s not particularly surprising that members of Turkey’s main opposition party are meeting around the country this weekend to pick their parliamentary candidates.īut surprising it is. Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu gives his party’s members a voice where no other leader dares CHP supporters in Lüleburgaz
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