Turkey- MHP not afraid of snap polls Baheli says
Date
5/10/2016 12:20:19 PM
(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) >The Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) is not afraid of snap polls its leader Devlet Bahçeli has said as he commented on a recent rivalry inside his party.
“The MHP is not afraid of the [10 percent election] threshold or anything and will not be. The MHP can’t be directed with rumors produced in columns on TV screens and on social and Internet media” Bahçeli said in the parliamentary group meeting of his party on May 10.
Former MHP lawmaker Meral Akener who has already expressed her intention to run for the party leadership recently said that the votes of the MHP would rise to 25 percent if she was elected the leader of the party.
“They say that the developments on the extraordinary party congress will be determinant. They say that if the MHP stays with the current administration it won’t be able to pass the threshold and if it goes it will rise to 25 percent. This choir of miserable [individuals] and liars attempted to plant their deception mechanisms like homemade bombs” Bahçeli said referring to the extraordinary party congress that anAnkaracourt ruled on as it also appointed a three-member panel to organize it accepting the demands of the dissident MHP members. Another court decided to halt the extraordinary party congress process as a precaution.
Meanwhile the lawyer of another former MHP lawmaker who expressed his intention to run for party leadership said the extraordinary congress will be held and the court’s decision to halt the process was void.
Former lawmaker Sinan Oan’s lawyer Kürat Ergün said the decision was void as the ruling wasn’t conveyed to them during the legal time period.
MHP dissidents have criticized Bahçeli since the MHP’s poor showing in the Nov. 1 2015 election in which it only won 11 percent of the country’s votes and 40 seats in parliament.
Bahçeli has led the party since July 1997 but MHP dissidents have collected enough delegate votes to hold an extraordinary convention to challenge the party’s leadership.
Meanwhile Bahçeli also renewed his support of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the fight against terrorism saying they accepted it as a “national duty.”
“If the struggle against terrorism decelerates after the extraordinary congress of the AKP we won’t hesitate to give additional support as a party in parliament” Bahçeli said referring to the AKP’s congress on May 22 after Turkish Prime MinisterAhmet Davutoluannounced his decision to leave the chairmanship of the party.
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