Ozkan: 'Each party must be able to nominate a candidate for presidency'

Ozkan: Each party must be able to nominate a candidate for presidency
Date: 23.4.2018 16:00

Milli Gazete columnist Abdulkadir Özkan writes on Turkey's snap election. Here is the full article.

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The election laws can not be changed according to the preference of the party or alliance parties holding the majority in parliament. There must be certain rules and the rules have to be set in the constitution. Speaking of which, the appointment of the President of the Republic should not be any different today. There must be certain rules in the core issues, the change must be in detail. Speaking of which, the election of the President is a feature of two rounds. If one candidate fails to receive 50 + 1 in the first round, two candidates with the most votes will compete in the second round. By contrast, to show the President the candidate, the rules are left to the party or alliance parties, which hold the majority in the Assembly. As such, it is not possible for parties without a parliamentary group to directly show candidates for the presidency. A proposal of a hundred thousand voters is required to show candidates.
 
When the proposal of these hundred thousand people came to the agenda, it was first reflected in the media to be made through a notary public. Objections raised on this, such a path would cause serious costs to come on, and some parties would need serious paralysis for their election campaigns. Following the decision of the dominant election, the arrangement brought to the Parliament was hastily brought to a point where hundreds of people could notify a proposal through the county election boards, not through a notary. The parties may have survived the scourge, but with the decision of the dominant election, which has been compressed for a period of two months, it is not yet decided how this will work.
 
Parties that do not have a group in the Assembly will hurry in this congestion, candidates will determine it first, and then the Election Boards will be applied for the nominated candidate. It is not yet clear how long the Supreme Election Board will set this up, but it will be clear in a day or two. The ruling party and the allied partner took the decision of dominant election by knowing and thinking that a dominant election decision would be made before the months. In this regard, they had done some specific work before the months. Meanwhile, some parties have said that an early election will come to an end, but the ruling voices have insisted that elections will be held on time, and that there is no early election on their agenda. In short, opposition and public opinion were tried to be deceived. At this point, it may be said that such discourses should not be deceived in opposition. Aldanmak is of course a weakness, but cheating can not be described as honest politics.
 
As a result, it would not be necessary to have such a hundred thousand signatures in order to show Presidential candidate in an environment where there was already a very tight election schedule, and every party with the right to vote would be able to show the Presidential candidate if he wanted. Beyond this, the patrons must not be forced to enter the province in an alliance with the provinces, since the alliances have been brought to a legal level, and this should not be a polemical issue. I specifically say this for the presidential election. Because, if there is no election in the first round, there is a second round of this work if the number of candidates enter the presidential election. If the President is already in the second round, if the parties make an alliance for this tour or not, they will be elected to one of the two candidates. This orientation often can not prevent alliances made in the pan. While the issue is so obvious, the ruling party is struggling to get results in the first round of the province, and it is not possible to recognize some cunning for the opposition.
 
If a party is entitled to elect and it will determine the deputy candidates as a result, why not appoint a candidate for president?

YEREL HABERLER

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