ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s main opposition party Friday names a senior lawmaker known for his fiery and impassioned rhetoric as its candidate to challenge President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in next month’s election, paving the way for a potentially bruising campaign.
The candidate of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) in the June 24 poll will be Muharrem Ince, CHP leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu, who had already made clear he would not be standing, announces.
“On June 24, I will, God willing, be president by the wish of the people,” Ince says after being called to the stage at an Ankara rally by Kilicdaroglu.
“For 80 million people (Turkey’s population)… I will be everyone’s president. I will be an unbiased president,” he adds.
The candidacy of Ince, a former physics teacher and MP since 2002, is approved at a meeting of CHP MPs where all 110 of its lawmakers voted for him to stand.
— AFP
The leader of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Kemal Kilicdaroglu (L) listens as Muharrem Ince (R) addresses a party meeting on May 4, 2018, in Ankara during which Ince was named as the CHP candidate to challenge incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in June 24 elections. (AFP Photo/Adem Altan)
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