Turkey’s opposition will go divided to the polls in Turkey’s March local elections after two of the main opposition parties, the Republican People’s Party (CHP) and the İYİ Parti (Good Party), announced that they will not repeat the coalition they formed for the May presidential elections.
“As a result of the vote of our central executive, the İYİ Parti will participate freely and alone in the 2024 local elections,” party spokesman Kürşad Zorlu announced in a press appearance. According to sources in the party led by Meral Akşener, whom the new CHP chairman Özgür Özel proposed last week to repeat the electoral coalition, only 14 members of the İYİ Parti executive voted in favour of running together with the CHP on the electoral lists, while 35 were opposed.
Akşener was precisely one of the most critical voices in the coalition that the Turkish opposition formed to confront Erdoğan in the last presidential elections, and even threatened to withdraw his party from the coalition after the other opposition parties decided to propose as their candidate the then CHP leader, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, who eventually lost not only the elections but also the CHP presidency to Özel at a congress held last month.
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Pablo Gómez is a specialist in Turkey and has been editor-in-chief of Hispanatolia since 2011. He has been analysing current affairs and geopolitics in Turkey and the surrounding region since 2006.
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