Election diary - March 29

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Countdown

45 days are left for the presidential and parliamentary elections in Turkey. 

The period for the objections to be made to the candidates on the provisional list of presidential candidates ends today at 05:00 pm. and the Supreme Election Council will start to examine the objections made after this hour. 

The Labor Party (EMEP) announced that the candidates for MP of the party will be placed on the joint list of the Labor and Freedom Alliance under the Green Left Party (GLP).

Turkey Worker's Party (TİP) president Erkan Baş announced that actor Mehmet Aslantuğ was going to be a candidate for MP under TİP. 

TİP is also within the Labor and Freedom Alliance, but the party is competing under its own lists in the parliamentary elections. 

The People's Democracy Party (HDP) is the party within the Labor and Freedom Alliance with by far the highest share of votes, with its strongholds in the Kurdish majority cities.

HDP, which is facing the risk of closure in a case at the Constitutional Court, and the other political parties within the alliance will be competing under GLP in May 14 elections. 

Emine Uçak, one of the founders of the People's Voice Party (HAS Parti) and ex-member of central board of the Felicity Party (Saadet) announced that she will be a candidate for MP under the Republican People's Party (CHP). (TY/PE)