Oğan who met Kılıçdaroğlu: '1 million 650 thousand voters who left earthquake region did not register'

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Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the Chairperson of the Republican People's Party (CHP) and the joint presidential candidate of the Nation Alliance of six opposition parties met Sinan Oğan, the presidential candidate of the Ancestral (ATA) Alliance today (April 12) at 01:00 pm. 

The two candidates met after Sinan Oğan made a call yesterday to all four candidates to come together and talk about election safety.

Oğan had, in a statement made yesterday (April 11), said that there were foreign nationals who changed their names in e-state applications and that election safety was the most important problem in Turkey, calling on all four presidential candidates. 

"We have to come together and talk if they care about election safety even if a little," Oğan had said. 

After today's meeting, Oğan talked to the journalists and reminded them that more than 2 million people had to leave their provinces as a result of the February 6 earthquakes. He then said, "Only 450 thousand of these voters have been registered but 1 million 650 thousand have not registered. This is a great problem for democracy and for the voters' will to be reflected. It is also an issue that will jeopardize election safety." 

The four presidential candidates

There are four candidates for the presidency running in the May 14 elections in Turkey. 

The ruling coalition of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) parliamentary groups nominated Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as their candidate.

Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has been nominated for the presidency by the parliamentary groups of two major opposition parties, the Republican People's Party (CHP) and the Good Party (İYİ).

Muharrem İnce, who ran for president in 2018 and is currently the leader of the Homeland (Memleket) Party and Sinan Oğan entered the race by collecting over 100,000 voter signatures. (NT/PE)