CHP: Appointed officials are removing elected party members

CHP officials in Aydın have strongly condemned the removal of their provincial chairman and elected executive board members, characterizing it as an operation by "appointed" individuals against those chosen by the party's organization.

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The Republican People's Party derives its legitimacy from its member and the nation. The Republican People's Party has not taken and will not take its legitimacy from the palace or the palace's judiciary.

Bülent Tezcan, a CHP Aydın deputy, stated that the Republican People's Party (CHP) derives its legitimacy from its members and the nation, not from the presidential palace or its judiciary. He asserted that an "operation" orchestrated through the judiciary is attempting to remove elected party leadership, which he claims has been validated by party members, delegates, and the electorate through election results. Tezcan framed this as a struggle between the palace's influence and the party's grassroots.

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We are facing a very heavy operation against the Republican People's Party organization, created in the center of the palace judiciary.

Tezcan further elaborated that the current conflict is not merely an internal party matter but a broader fight between the ruling power, which he claims has lost popular support, and the people. He accused those seeking legitimacy from the palace, who have failed to gain it from the party's congresses, of forming alliances with the ruling power to challenge cadres leading the CHP according to its founding principles. He specifically highlighted the situation in Aydın and similar actions in other parts of Turkey, including an operation against the Çankaya Municipality in Ankara, which he believes is a continuation of efforts to undermine the CHP's influence, particularly in key political centers.

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The will chosen by the member, chosen by the delegate, accepted by the nation and rewarded by making it the first party in the ballot box; is being tried to be removed from the Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi administration by the instruction of Erdoğan, the palace, and their judiciary.