CHP decides on 'primary elections'

The CHP Central Executive Board (MYK) and Party Assembly (PM) met at the party headquarters under the chairmanship of Chairman Özgür Özel. Making a statement regarding the MYK meeting, Yücel provided information about the election calendar.

Reminding that the local election calendar has been published in the Official Gazette, Yücel pointed to his party's three-day camp in the Manavgat district of Antalya.

Explaining that the national agenda, the work carried out after the 38th Ordinary Congress, and local election strategies were evaluated with deputies and MYK members throughout the camp, Yücel reported that the Party Assembly meeting began following today's MYK meeting. Yücel stated the following:

"In our Party Assembly meeting today, it has been decided to use trend polling methods named 'organization-supervised primary election', 'organization-supervised simple candidate poll', and 'organization-supervised expanded candidate poll' according to the characteristics of the electoral districts, in order to serve as a source for determining candidates in all electoral districts and all types of elections, in accordance with Article 10 of the Law on Local Administrations and Neighborhood Headmen and Council of Elders Elections, Article 37 of the Law on Political Parties, and Article 55 of our party charter, for the elections to be held on March 31, 2024, based on 659 electoral districts. Primary elections will be held in at least one thousand electoral districts; we will determine these electoral districts week by week and share them with the public.

"WE ARE GIVING OUR ORGANIZATIONS AUTHORITY ON THIS MATTER"

"In other electoral districts, these regions will be determined in the coming weeks, and as we make decisions on them week by week, we will share them with the public through members of the press. First and foremost, we say primary election. We are giving our organizations authority on this matter. I would like to share that in places where primary elections cannot be held, we have a will to reduce multiple candidates to one, in line with the opinions of our organizations, through satisfaction surveys, candidate profile determination processes, and by measuring the social reception of candidate hopefuls, and to prefer female candidates among them as much as possible."