İYİ Party Chair Candidate Dervişoğlu: We faced this congress before we could conduct our self-criticism

Following the March 31 Local Administration General Elections, the İYİ Party, which decided to hold an extraordinary congress, is determining its new chairman. Koray Aydın, Müsavat Dervişoğlu, Tolga Akalın, and Günay Kodaz are competing for the chairmanship at the 5th Extraordinary Congress.

İYİ Party Chair candidate Müsavat Dervişoğlu, who won the right to speak first as a result of a draw, said, "The journey we embarked upon was not easy. We had a tyrannical government and a freak system of unknown nature before us.

The struggle of the 'Good' (İyi) people was already a struggle against this tyrannical government and the freak system. The system had impositions. One of those impositions was seeking the opportunity to gain a place in the political arena through alliances. The cause and the party responsible for this is not the İYİ Party. The party responsible for this was, in essence, the system imposed upon Turkey," he stated.

"UNFORTUNATELY, WE WERE NOT SUCCESSFUL"

Stating that they had been involved in various alliances starting from 2018 until the last local elections, Dervişoğlu spoke as follows:

"The main purpose and goal of the 2019 local election alliance, as you all know, was the desire that this government could be defeated through elections and that the AKP government could be brought to an end. We achieved this in the 2019 local elections. We showed our great nation that the opposition could win and that this government could even be removed. We had made the alliance in that election for the 2023 general elections. We were going to show that the government could be defeated, and then we would try to ensure that the political life of the government in power at that time would be completed in the 2023 elections. But the process did not flow that way. 

As you all know, despite all the efforts of the İYİ Party, unfortunately, due to a number of strategic mistakes, the 2023 elections were lost, and Turkey went to a local election following this. Our party, in order to preserve its unique identity and to prepare properly for the 2028 general elections, gathered all its authorized bodies and decided to enter the election independently. With the adoption of this decision, the İYİ Party was again attempted to be made the subject of various attacks. As a result of that, following that process, we were unfortunately not successful in the local elections we entered, and we have faced this congress before we could evaluate this failure and conduct our self-criticism."

News Source: İHA