Binali Yıldırım Elected AKP Presidential Candidate

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Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) Spokesperson, Ömer Çelik has announced that the presidential candidate of his party would be the Minister of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications; Binali Yıldırım.

Yıldırım will be the only presidential candidate on the 2nd Extraordinary Congress of AKP to be held on May 22. After he is appointed as the President, he will be assigned by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to form the new government.

To be the second Prime Minister from Erzincan

If Binali Yıldırım is elected as president on the extraordinary congress, he will be the second Prime Minister who comes from Erzincan province. Earlier, Yıldırım Akbulut had been the first Prime Minister from Erzincan who had formed the 47th Government.

Yıldırım Akbulut had been appointed to Prime Minister following Turgut Özal being elected the President on November 9, 1989. He had later been elected president of ANAP (Motherland Party).

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What had happened?

Following the Central Executive Board meeting of AKP coming to an end, it has been reported that the party’s extraordinary congress will be held on May 22 and Davutoğlu would not run for president in the congress.

Besides Yıldırım, Vice Prime President Numan Kurtulmuş, Minister of Justice Bekir Bozdağ and

Minister of Energy Berat Albayrak had been mentioned for the position of Party President and Prime Minister. (YY/ÇT/DG)

* Photograph: Erçin Top - Ankara/Anadolu Agency (AA)