AKP Presidential Candidate to be Announced Thursday

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Tendency survey for the new president of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) to hold Extraordinary Congress on May 22 has begun.  Provincial mayors, provincial council presidents and deputy chairs of metropolitan municipality councils declared the figures they want to see as the president. According to pro-government Sabah daily, 353 people were invited for tendency survey and 315 of these people attended.

Tendency survey will be held among the AKP MPs today.

The candidate will be announced on Thursday

The new presidential candidate will be announced by commission of four people consisting of representatives of all units prior to the congress on Thursday.

Abdulkadir Selvi in his column in Hürriyet daily based on a meeting he made with an AKP manager declared the presidential tendencies. According to Selvi, the following figures have come to the fore: Binali Yıldırım, Bekir Bozdağ, and Numan Kurtulmuş. There is agreement on three subjects with respect to policies as to the extraordinary congress: It will be gone to the congress with joint candidate, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s opinion will be determining and the president will be backed whoever elected.

In the light of these information, Selvi commented “What does this mean? First Erdoğan, second Erdoğan, third Erdoğan. In other words, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan comes out of the tendency survey”. (HK/TK)