According to the list — which can be objected to until May 11 — six candidates will run for the presidency in Turkey: Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Muharrem Ince, Meral Aksener, Selahattin Demirtas, Temel Karamollaoglu and Dogu Perincek.<\/p>\n
This April, parliament passed a bill for early elections on June 24, cementing Turkey\u2019s move to a presidential system.<\/p>\n
In an April 2017 referendum, Turkish voters approved the switch from a parliamentary system to a presidential one.<\/p>\n
The Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party are set to enter the June 24 parliamentary and presidential polls as an election alliance.<\/p>\n
The MHP-AK Party alliance is supporting Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is seeking his second term as president.<\/p>\n
Erdogan has served as president since 2014 — Turkey’s first popularly elected president. Before that, he served as prime minister from 2003 to 2014.<\/p>\n
Should he win the June election, Erdogan would be Turkey’s first leader under the presidential system, doing away with the prime minister’s post, among other changes.<\/p>\n
Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has nominated Muharrem Ince as its presidential candidate for the June 24 early elections.<\/p>\n
In a rally in the capital Ankara, CHP leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu formally announced the CHP’s choice of Ince as their presidential hopeful.<\/p>\n
The opposition IYI (Good) Party has circulated a petition to make party leader Meral Aksener their candidate in the June 24 presidential elections.<\/p>\n
Aksener surpassed 100,000 signatures to be a presidential candidate in the upcoming elections.<\/p>\n
On April 22, fifteen deputies from Turkey’s main opposition party CHP resigned to join the IYI Party to make it eligible to form a group in parliament.<\/p>\n
The opposition Felicity (Saadet) Party declared its chairman, Temel Karamollaoglu, as their presidential candidate.<\/p>\n
Karamollaoglu also surpassed 100,000 signatures to be a presidential candidate.<\/p>\n
The opposition People’s Democratic Party (HDP) announced jailed ex-chairman, Selahattin Demirtas, as its presidential candidate.<\/p>\n
In November 2016, Demirtas together with 12 HDP lawmakers, were arrested on terror-related charges. Demirtas remains in custody pending trial.<\/p>\n
Lastly, Dogu Perincek — chairman for Vatan Party — surpassed 100,000 votes to become eligible for being presidential candidate.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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