İsrafil Bayrakçı: "Moral reflections on election campaigns"

İsrafil Bayrakçı: "Moral reflections on election campaigns"
Date: 3.5.2023 16:00

Milli Gazete columnist İsrafil Bayrakçı writes on election campaigns. Here is the full article.

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The tension that has been rising gradually since the election mail was entered into the last ten days, reached a level that terrified the society with the mindless statements from the ruling wing aimed at escalating the tension.
 
While the Nation Alliance carries out its campaign, which is supported by technological innovations, within the framework of traditional political morality, the government, which has mobilized all the means of the state in its favor, does not hesitate to resort to all means that strain the society without thinking about where it will end.
 
The saddest thing is that the polarizing and anti-democratic rhetoric of the society unfortunately comes from the people who run the highest level institutions of the state. Seeing that the possibility of losing is increasing day by day with the results of the survey, the government seems to have adopted an understanding that sees every way possible in order to protect its position in which it uses abnormal powers that have not been seen in the history of the Republic.
 
The ruling bloc nominated all of its ministers, especially the Ministers of Justice, Interior and Transport, to the parliamentary position, without the need for resignation, without the need for resignation. The use of the material and moral opportunities of the institutions of the parliamentary candidate ministers, who hold the state's budget, is the best example of unfair competition.
 
As just one example of this, the use of aid by AFAD, collected from all citizens after the earthquake, as election material by the ministers of power, reveals the gravity of it. There is no public information about where cash aids are used.
 
The Minister of Justice's dividing the society into two as champagne and praisers in terms of the way they celebrate the election results aims to exploit the religious feelings of one part and marginalize the other.
 
The point of departure of the Nation Alliance is that this discriminatory point of view, which was developed through people's lifestyles in order to rally the devout voters, from the harm it caused to the country.
 
This discourse at the level of the Minister of Justice of the government, which should embrace the whole society, is seen as an expression of a hurtful and ruthless style in the eyes of religious people in the Nation Alliance. On the other hand, the Nation Alliance gives a moral lesson to the government by not failing to use them, despite the fact that it has many trump cards, especially expressions that belittle religious values, coming from the ruling bloc.
 
The calm attitude of the opposition, which further strained the ruling bloc, and the results of the poll, which pointed out that the Nation Alliance would win in the first round, seem to have disturbed the deputy candidate in the Ministry of Interior a lot. The interpretation of the election as a coup is understood as a Minister who is expected to ensure safety and security in the eyes of the nation, spreading fear and threatening the democratic structure and society.
 
With the awareness that the words spoken during the election process will take their place in our political history, we hope that moral values will not be ignored, despite everything, we hope that the May 14 elections will bring goodness for our country and our nation.

YEREL HABERLER

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