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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2018 10:38:49 GMT
As expected AKP and MHP have jointly applied to the Supreme Election Board (YSK) for the nomination of Erdoğan for the presidential elections.
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2018 11:59:04 GMT
The main opposition parties CHP, İYİ, Felicity Party (SP) and the Democratic Party (DP) have formed an alliance for the parliamentary elections (but not the presidential). www.middleeastmonitor.com/20180503-turkish-opposition-alliance-seeks-to-control-parliament/They need to registered it with the Supreme Board of Elections (YSK) by 6 May. The official name for the alliance will be either the Democracy Alliance, National Alliance, Justice Alliance, or National Alliance for Democracy. .... HDP aren't part of the alliance: “Two right-wing alliances will compete in the upcoming election. They will all be on one side and the HDP will be on the other side,” HDP Deputy Group Chair Filiz Kerestecioğlu said in a press conference at parliament on May 2.
Criticizing the CHP for excluding left-wing parties, Kerestecioğlu said “a social democratic party should form an alliance with other leftist parties.”
“If you are forming an alliance with the interior minister of the 1990s and those thought guilty of the Sivas [massacre in 1993] then you are part of a right-wing alliance,” she said, referring to İYİ Party leader Meral Akşener’s brief term as interior minister and SP leader Temel Karamollaoğlu service as mayor of Sivas during the deadly Islamist attack that killed 34 people in 1993. |
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Post by Antiochian on May 4, 2018 12:39:59 GMT
As with Russia, this poll takes us into the territory of asking just how much of a democratic majority a government needs to have to be permitted to enact its manifesto commitments to clamp down on the civil liberties of a minority of its citizens. ... or a majority of its citizens... |
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Post by Antiochian on May 4, 2018 12:41:45 GMT
Should we not have a poll on this thread ? I think I vote Erdo but I would like to hear the arguments to the contrary If you like Putin (with a religious overlay) then go for it.. If he decides to discard future elections because you've already made the right decision once then don't be surprised. |
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2018 18:27:32 GMT
Should we not have a poll on this thread ? Obviously not. Mods too busy clamping down on naughty words. The symbolism is striking. The deadline for registrating presidential candidates & parties and alliances for the parliamentary election is the 6th of May, so no reason to set up a poll before then. |
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Post by swanarcadian on May 4, 2018 21:36:44 GMT
The mods don't really do polls, although they could. The Forum Pollster can and does though.
Tag me when nominations are closed and I will happily stick a poll up.
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Post by cogload on May 20, 2018 19:44:06 GMT
Polling has the Caliph on 42% for the presidency. However this is before ballot box stuffing.
It will be fascinating to see how the AKP get on in Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir. Erdogan lost the vote in the 3 major cities in regards to the referendum and this was after ballot box stuffing.
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2018 20:06:44 GMT
The six approved presidential candidates are:
Muharrem İnce (CHP)
Meral Akşener (İYİ)
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (AKP)
Selahattin Demirtaş (HDP)
Temel Karamollaoğlu (Felicity Party)
Doğu Perinçek (Patriotic Party)
Should we poll the presidential candidates or the parties and/or alliances for parliament?
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2018 20:47:04 GMT
The parties contesting are: People's Alliance:Justice and Development Party (AKP) with some Great Unity Party (BBP) candidates on its lists. Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), Hard Right/quasi-Fascist National Alliance:Good Party (İYİ), with some Democratic Party (DP) candidates on its lists. Both parties are Conservative and fairly moderate by Turkish standards. Republican People's Party (CHP), Left Kemalist Felicity Party (SP), Islamist Other parties:Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), broad tent leftist, Kurdish rights Patriotic Party (VATAN), Socialist and Kemalist Free Cause Party (HÜDAPAR), front for Kurdish HezbollahIndependent Turkey Party (BTP), nationalism, Alevite rights I will not try to describe the ideology of the AKP as we will likely disagree on this, but at this point its first and foremost a typical party of power and of course "of the right". The BBP is an Islamist and far right MHP splinter from the early 90s (Grey Wolves affiliated). |
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Post by cogload on May 23, 2018 12:44:36 GMT
If you want a very cheap holiday in Turkey now is the time. The lira is nosediving.
Apparently it is a global conspiracy against the almighty Sultan.
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2018 13:12:28 GMT
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Post by cogload on May 23, 2018 14:43:52 GMT
Errr.
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Post by swanarcadian on May 23, 2018 16:46:49 GMT
The six approved presidential candidates are: Muharrem İnce (CHP) Meral Akşener (İYİ) Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (AKP) Selahattin Demirtaş (HDP) Temel Karamollaoğlu (Felicity Party) Doğu Perinçek (Patriotic Party) Should we poll the presidential candidates or the parties and/or alliances for parliament? I have done both. There is a poll for the parliamentary elections in a new thread. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2018 16:12:46 GMT
Looks like we are getting a run-off.
The two latest polls (not counting a poll from Konsensus conducted throughout May because it's earliest answers are too dated).
Mediar (22–23 May)
Erdogan 43.5
İnce 22.2
Akşener 19.3
Demirtaş 12.8
REMRES (17–23 May)
Erdogan 42.2
İnce 24.6
Akşener 16.9
Demirtaş 12.3
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Post by mboy on Jun 4, 2018 8:22:51 GMT
Wow, on those figures, Erdogan could surely lose?...before the result is fixed, of course!
World be massively ironic if Erd put all the power into the presidency and then immediately lost it.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2018 9:34:14 GMT
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Post by The Bishop on Jun 4, 2018 9:53:40 GMT
Sadly, that still appears something of a QTWTAIN.
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Post by mboy on Jun 4, 2018 10:08:33 GMT
As long as Ince or Aksener come second there is a possibility. On the downside, Erdogan must sense this, and is likely to be particularly unhinged in the next 3 weeks...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2018 10:34:21 GMT
As long as Ince or Aksener come second there is a possibility. On the downside, Erdogan must sense this, and is likely to be particularly unhinged in the next 3 weeks... That much is a given. The rest are also-rans. Demirtaş just has a bigger base than the other also-rans, but his ceiling is far too low to reach the run-off. |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Jun 12, 2018 4:43:50 GMT
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