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Before Üsküdar’s repeat election, CHP and YENİ Party unite: “We will not hand it to AKP”

From Cumhuriyet · () Turkish

Translated from Turkish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • CHP and YENİ Party officials in Üsküdar announced joint action before a repeat election for the municipality’s deputy mayor.
  • The election was repeated after a court annulled the previous result following an AKP challenge.
  • The parties accused AKP of using political maneuvers and said they would defend what they called the voters’ will.

The CHP and YENİ Party say they will act together in Üsküdar’s repeat election for deputy mayor, declaring that they will not allow the municipality to pass to AKP.

Their joint statement came before the vote scheduled for Saturday, September 5. CHP Üsküdar district chair Zerrin Civandağ and YENİ Party district chair Berk Tütüncü said all their council members would coordinate to prevent AKP from taking a result they said voters had already awarded them.

The parties said Sibel Tan Çetinkaya had won the earlier deputy mayor election after an operation targeting Üsküdar Mayor Sinem Dedetaş. They said AKP challenged the result, after which a court annulled the election. The Istanbul governor’s office then set a new vote.

We will not hand Üsküdar to AKP.

· Zerrin Civandağ and Berk TütüncüThe CHP and YENİ Party district leaders announced joint action before the repeat election.

The statement accused AKP of trying to win back an election it lost through political maneuvers. It cited the defection of four municipal council members to AKP and the detention of three council members shortly before the repeat vote as part of that effort.

“We will not hand Üsküdar to AKP through backroom maneuvers,” the two parties said, adding that they would stand by what they described as the public’s will.

We will not hand Üsküdar to AKP through backroom maneuvers, and we will stand by the public’s will.

· Zerrin Civandağ and Berk TütüncüTheir joint statement framed the election as a defense of the previous result.
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Originally published by Cumhuriyet in Turkish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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