Election diary - March 28

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Countdown

46 days are left for the presidential and parliamentary elections on May 14 to be held in Turkey. 

Today the provisional list of presidential candidates was published in the Official Gazette. The period for objections to presidential candidates started at 08:00 am. 

Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's applications for candidacy have been approved on March 24. Erdoğan and Kılıçdaroğlu are the two candidates nominated by political parties that have a group in the parliament. 

The Republican People's Party (CHP) and the Good Party (İYİ) groups nominated Kılıçdaroğlu while the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) group nominated Erdoğan as their presidential candidates. 

The presidential candidates nominated with the signatures of a hundred thousand voters have been Muharrem İnce and Sinan Oğan. 

The provisional list of presidential candidates, therefore, includes these four people, their names, their dates of birth, and the universities they graduated from. 

Objections to the list announced by the Supreme Election Board (YSK) can be made until 05:00 pm, on March 29, 2023, Wednesday. 

Objections

The Democracy and Progress Party (DEVA) spokesperson İdris Şahin announced that they have submitted to YSK the petition objecting to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan being a presidential candidate once again. 

Halil İlker Çelik, the General Secretary of the Homeland Party also announced that they have made an objection to Erdoğan's candidacy at the YSK. 

AKP spokesperson Ömer Çelik made an announcement on the objections to Erdoğan's candidacy and said, "There is nothing preventing our President to be a candidate. We had announced months ago that our President would be a candidate again. And the application has been duly made for his candidacy."  (AÖ/PE)