DW: The opposition in Turkey is without a candidate, a few months before the elections

Time is counting down to the polls in Turkey on May 14. Yesterday the opposition coalition met in an attempt to agree on a common candidate. No effect.

Instead of naming a common candidate to run against President Erdogan in the May 14 election, a statement emerged yesterday that reiterated the view that Erdogan should not run again. An announcement that gave food to the coalition for comments that as soon as they realized that they cannot defeat him at the polls, they started rioting.

Be that as it may, Turkey has entered a pre-election landscape of fierce confrontation and the issue of Erdogan’s candidacy, as the government responds, is considered to have ended with the law that governs Turkey’s new presidential system. According to him, it will be the second and last term of the President of Turkey with this system.

The representative of the ruling party and former minister Omer Çelik responded to the announcement of the six parties saying that there is no question of Erdoğan’s candidacy, that they are playing undemocratically and that they will learn their lesson at the polls from the people.

Time is running out against the opposition

However, as time goes on and the opposition is without a candidate, the Justice and Development party presents work and proceeds with benefits, so it recovers, slowly but steadily covering the losses of recent years.

Greek-Turkish relations with the USA and the “hostile” international press which, according to the Turkish media and government circles, have targeted the President of Turkey in order to influence the tendencies of the Turkish people.

Andreas Robopoulos, Istanbul

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