CHP seeks court to call congress if leadership fails; AKP criticizes 'pathetic' move

CHP lawmaker Bülent Tezcan announced that the party is collecting delegate signatures for an extraordinary congress. He stated that if the current leadership, appointed by court order, fails to call a congress, the party will petition the court to appoint a convention committee.

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My statement is to ensure that if a congress is not called despite the signatures collected, a congress will be called through the court. In other words, to ensure that the will of the delegate is fulfilled. This is the procedure in political parties. This is not about appointing a trustee in place of the elected leadership or bringing a committee to run the party. It is only a committee to hold the congress. It is completely different from Gürsel Tekin and his team being appointed as a 'committee with all powers' to the elected Istanbul Provincial Directorate. It also has nothing to do with taking over the party with a preliminary injunction. You can give this answer to those who whisper in your ear.

AKP politician Şamil Tayyar criticized Tezcan's statements on social media, calling the move "pathetic." Tayyar argued that the CHP is seeking a court-appointed "trustee" to manage the party, similar to how he claims the current leadership was appointed. He accused the CHP of prioritizing their own positions over the party's interests and acting inconsistently by seeking court intervention after a court appointed the current leadership.

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You still haven't understood, Şamil Bey? My statement is to ensure that if a congress is not called despite the signatures collected, a congress will be called through the court. In other words, to ensure that the will of the delegate is fulfilled. This is the procedure in political parties. This is not about appointing a trustee in place of the elected leadership or bringing a committee to run the party. It is only a committee to hold the congress. It is completely different from Gürsel Tekin and his team being appointed as a 'committee with all powers' to the elected Istanbul Provincial Directorate. It also has nothing to do with taking over the party with a preliminary injunction. You can give this answer to those who whisper in your ear?

Tezcan responded to Tayyar's criticism by clarifying that the party's intention is not to have a trustee appointed to replace the elected leadership. Instead, he explained, they aim to use the court to ensure a congress is called if the delegates' will is not respected. Tezcan emphasized that this is a standard procedure in political parties to facilitate a congress and is fundamentally different from appointing a committee to run the party or seeking to take over leadership through a preliminary injunction. He asserted that his proposal is solely to ensure the congress proceeds as per delegate will.

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I had a program, and a friend leaned in and said, 'They're going to apply for a trustee for the special CHP.' I laughed and said, 'It's a joke,' but they immediately showed me the news. Bülent Tezcan, from Özel's staff, says that if the Kılıçdaroğlu administration doesn't decide on a congress, they will apply to the court for a 'convention committee' to be appointed to the CHP. Remember when they said 'a trustee was appointed' when Gürsel Tekin was appointed as the Chairman of the Convention Committee in Istanbul? Now they want the same kind of 'trustee' in place of Kılıçdaroğlu. It's a complete failure of reason. They are undermining the struggle they are waging. While they say the CHP is being regulated by a court decision, they are planning an operation with another court decision. You have to be consistent. It means your problem is not the CHP, but your own seats. You deem any method permissible to protect those seats. It's a pathetic situation.